UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb6 in position 0: invalid start byte

[Νίκος]

Στις 29/9/2013 12:45 μμ, ο/η Steven D'Aprano έγραψε:
> On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 11:37:14 +0300, Νίκος wrote:
>
>> Στις 29/9/2013 11:30 πμ, ο/η Νίκος έγραψε:
>>> Στις 29/9/2013 11:23 πμ, ο/η Chris Angelico έγραψε:
>>>> On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Νίκος <nikos.gr33k at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> ipval is suposed to get just an ip address. ip addresses doesnt
>>>>> change its just number seperated by dots.
>>>>
>>>> That's one way an IP address can be rendered. It's not the only one.
>>>> There's an entire category of IP addresses that's usually written with
>>>> colons rather than dots. However, I reiterate: How do you KNOW what's
>>>> in ipval? I wonder if there's an easy way for you to find out...
>>>>
>>>> ChrisA
>>>>
>>> yes it is, i take it you mean to just print the damn varibale to see
>>> what on eath is actually outputs back....
>>
>>
>> Here, as exactly as i though of it:
>>
>> print( ipval )  returned  46.198.177.249
> ............................^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> But the error comes from:
>
>> [Sun Sep 29 07:44:43 2013] [error] [client 173.245.49.126]
> .............................................^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>
> Given that the error occurred hours ago, I don't think you'll be able to
> diagnose why it happened unless it happens again.
>
>
> Another thought comes to mind... unless you have changed your habits, I
> recall that you edit the source code live. If that is the case, it is
> possible that the error actually occurred in a completely unrelated line,
> if you happened to be editing the file at the moment the error occurred.

You remembr correctly, i'am still editing the source code live to 
reflect instant changes.

But....at that moment and all mornign long i wasnt altering the code at 
all when this error occured and i just tried it at the moment as iam 
typing it this by alterting the

except Exception as e: ===> except socket.gaierror as e:
which cannot handle unicore realted errors and the exact same error 
appeared with my ip address involved at the error log.

so, the question that arises again and reamins is how come 'host' vars 
gets a values most of the times and sometimes it just outputs back 
unicode related erros.

I must tell you that i had this problem also months ago, but since i 
couldnt able to solve it i left it as it was, but it just started to 
make things more and more hectic.