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Is there anything that can be done to make pexpect spawns send unicode lines?

In this example they are just middot characters, but this process
needs to be able to handle languages in other character sets.

>>> spokentext = u'Nation . Search the FOX Nation . czars \xb7 Health care \xb7 town halls \xb7 tea parties ...'
>>> p = pexpect.spawn('festival')
>>> p.expect('festival> ')
0
>>> p.sendline( spokentext )
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pexpect.py", line 961, in sendline
n = self.send(s)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pexpect.py", line 953, in send
c = os.write(self.child_fd, s)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb7' in
position 41: ordinal not in range(12
>>>

Help appreciated!

cheeers
Mat

On Sep 4, 7:11*pm, Mathew Oakes <mathew.oa...@memechine.org> wrote:
> Is there anything that can be done to make pexpect spawns send unicode lines?
>
> In this example they are just middot characters, but this process
> needs to be able to handle languages in other character sets.
>
> >>> spokentext = u'Nation . Search the FOX *Nation . czars *\xb7 *Health care *\xb7 *town halls *\xb7 *tea parties *...'
> >>> p = pexpect.spawn('festival')
> >>> p.expect('festival> ')
> 0
> >>> p.sendline( spokentext )
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> * File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> * File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pexpect.py", line 961, in sendline
> * * n = self.send(s)
> * File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pexpect.py", line 953, in send
> * * c = os.write(self.child_fd, s)
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb7' in
> position 41: ordinal not in range(12
>
>
>
> Help appreciated!
>
> cheeers
> Mat

Did you trying changing line 953 in the pexpect file to:

c = os.write(self.child_fd, s.encode("utf-8"))

and then run your code again?

Worth a shot. I have no good way of trying it out here.

~Sean