[mod_python] mod_python and unicode

On 25/06/2006, at 10:10 PM, b3nder wrote:

> Hi, list.
>
> Tell me please how to use utf-8 in ouput?
>
> from mod_python         import apache
> import codecs
> import os
>
>
> def handler(req):
>     req.content_type = 'text/plain; charset=utf-8'
>     req.send_http_header()
>     file = codecs.open(
>         os.path.dirname(__file__) + "/myfile.txt", "r", "utf-8")
>     a = file.read()
>     req.write(a)
>
>     return apache.OK
>
>
> gives error UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode
> characters in position 0-5: ordinal not in range(128)

Explicitly convert the Unicode string to a byte string before writing  
it out.

   req.write(a.encode('utf-8'))

Play with it at Python command line prompt by doing:

   >>> a=u"\u1234"
   >>> a.encode('utf-8')
   '\xe1\x88\xb4'

Graham