UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 72-73: ordinal not in range(128)

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#113 opened on Apr 13, 2014 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 2/5
Estimated time: 1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: python
Domain: backend

Research direction

Start in slideshow/lib/assembler/image.py at upload(), then trace the call from slideshow/lib/slide.py through assemble() and create(). Reproduce the submit flow with an image filename containing non-ASCII characters and inspect where slide.src_path(src.filename) is opened. Done means that upload no longer raises the reported UnicodeEncodeError.

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Description

500 Internal Server Error

The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 656, in respond
response.body = self.handler()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/cherrypy/lib/encoding.py", line 188, in call
self.body = self.oldhandler(_args, *_kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py", line 34, in call
return self.callable(_self.args, *_self.kwargs)
File "/home/ext/slideshow-src/slideshow/pages/slides.py", line 198, in submit
s = slide.create(cherrypy.thread_data.db, assembler, kwargs)
File "/home/ext/slideshow-src/slideshow/lib/slide.py", line 162, in create
slide._data = json.loads(slide.assemble(params))
File "/home/ext/slideshow-src/slideshow/lib/slide.py", line 54, in assemble
return json.dumps(self.assembler.assemble(self, **params))
File "/home/ext/slideshow-src/slideshow/lib/assembler/image.py", line 25, in assemble
return self.upload(slide, filename)
File "/home/ext/slideshow-src/slideshow/lib/assembler/image.py", line 28, in upload
dst = open(slide.src_path(src.filename), 'wb')
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 72-73: ordinal not in range(128)
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