Re: reload(sys)

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:53:36 +0000, Sönmez Kartal wrote:

On 31 A ustos, 04:24, Steven Bethard <steven.beth...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Snmez Kartal wrote:
I've had an encoding issue and solved it by
"sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')"...

My first try wasn't successful since setdefaultencoding is not named
when I imported sys module. After, I import sys module, I needed to
write "reload(sys)" also.

I wonder why we need to call "reload(sys)" to get setdefaultencoding
named?

sys.setdefaultencoding is purposely deleted from the sys module after
it's loaded because you really shouldn't be using it. The reload() call
restores the deleted attribute.

If you'd like a less brittle solution to your encoding issue, explain
what the issue was, and people here can probably help you find a better
solution.

I was using the XMLBuilder(xmlbuilder.py). I'm writing XML files as
"f.write(str(xml))". At execution of that line, it gives error with
description, configure your default encoding...

This doesn't help us that much. What is `f` here and what is `xml`?

This is the part of xmlbuilder.py which raises the error.

try:
if self.pretty:
# tabs are evil, so we will use two spaces
outstr = self._dom.toprettyxml("
",encoding=self.encoding)
else:
outstr = self._dom.toxml(encoding=self.encoding)
except UnicodeDecodeError:
sys.stderr.write('Decoding Error: You must configure
default encoding\n')
sys.exit()

So there is an attribute `self.encoding` on that object. Is it set? What
encoding is it? And do you put byte strings with values outside ASCII
into your XML or unicode strings?

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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