[Python-Dev] optparse and unicode (original) (raw)

Tom Cato Amundsen tca at gnu.org
Tue May 30 22:32:11 CEST 2006


optparse

Using unicode strings with non-ascii chars.[1]

I'm working around this by subclassing OptionParser. Below is a workaround I use in GNU Solfege. Should something like this be included in python 2.5?

(Please CC me any answer.)

Tom Cato

--- orig/src/mainwin.py +++ mod/src/mainwin.py @@ -30,7 +30,13 @@

import optparse

-opt_parser = optparse.OptionParser() +class MyOptionParser(optparse.OptionParser):

[1]

Traceback (most recent call last): File "./solfege.py", line 43, in ? import src.mainwin File "/home/tom/src/solfege-mcnv/src/mainwin.py", line 70, in ? options, args = opt_parser.parse_args() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 1129, in parse_args stop = self._process_args(largs, rargs, values) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 1169, in _process_args self._process_long_opt(rargs, values) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 1244, in _process_long_opt option.process(opt, value, values, self) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 611, in process return self.take_action( File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 632, in take_action parser.print_help() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 1370, in print_help file.write(self.format_help()) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 200-202: ordinal not in range(128)

Tom Cato Amundsen <tca at gnu.org> http://www.solfege.org/ GNU Solfege - free ear training http://www.gnu.org/software/solfege/



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