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Asked: 2012-02-01 04:30:29 +0800 CST

non-ascii fields in list of all members in launchpad team using the launchpadapi?

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I've written this python script to list all the display_name's from a team members in Launchpad:

from launchpadlib.launchpad import Launchpad
cachedir = "/home/username/.launchpadlib/cache/"
launchpad = Launchpad.login_anonymously('just testing', 'production', cachedir)
team = launchpad.people['']
len(team.members)
for person in team.members:
   print person.display_name

exit()

But when I execute the script piping it into an output file, it fails when finding a non-ascii name:

    $ python get_list.py > /tmp/file
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "get_list.py", line 7, in <module>
    print person.display_name
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

Any ideas?

launchpad-api

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Use

      print person.display_name.encode('utf-8')

    to tell Python what character encoding to use for unicode strings.

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