Unhelpful traceback

[John Nagle]

Here's a traceback that's not helping:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "InfoCompaniesHouse.py", line 255, in <module>
    main()
  File "InfoCompaniesHouse.py", line 251, in main
    loader.dofile(infile)                       # load this file
  File "InfoCompaniesHouse.py", line 213, in dofile
    self.dofilezip(infilename)                  # do ZIP file
  File "InfoCompaniesHouse.py", line 198, in dofilezip
    self.dofilecsv(infile, infd)        # as a CSV file
  File "InfoCompaniesHouse.py", line 182, in dofilecsv
    for fields in reader :                              # read entire
CSV file
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa3' in
position 14: ordinal not in range(128)

This is wierd, becuase "for fields in reader" isn't directly
doing a decode. That's further down somewhere, and the backtrace
didn't tell me where.

The program is converting some .CSV files that come packaged in .ZIP
files.  The files are big, so rather than expanding them, they're
read directly from the ZIP files and processed through the ZIP
and CSV modules.

Here's the code that's causing the error above:

        decoder = codecs.getreader('utf-8')
        with decoder(infdraw,errors="replace") as infd :
            with codecs.open(outfilename, encoding='utf-8', mode='w') as
outfd :
                headerline = infd.readline()
                self.doheaderline(headerline)
                reader = csv.reader(infd, delimiter=',', quotechar='"')
                for fields in reader :
                    pass

Normally, the "pass" is a call to something that
uses the data, but for test purposes, I put a "pass" in there.  It still
fails.   With that "pass", nothing is ever written to the
output file, and no "encoding" should be taking place.

"infdraw" is a stream from the zip module, create like this:

    with inzip.open(zipelt.filename,"r") as infd :
        self.dofilecsv(infile, infd)

This works for data records that are pure ASCII, but as soon as some
non-ASCII character comes through, it fails.

Where is the error being generated?  I'm not seeing any place
where there's a conversion to ASCII.  Not even a print.

				John Nagle