Re: python mode shell and unicode

[Andreas Röhler]

Max Arnold wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 04:56:49PM +0200, Andreas Röhler wrote:
>> Looks like your problem is rather on the python than the emacs side.
> 
>> Download it here
>> http://launchpad.net/python-mode/trunk/5.1.0/+download/python-mode.el
>>
>> M-x py-execute-file
> 
> Ok, I placed (require 'python-mode) to init.el and it seems to be activated
> (autoloading didn't worked for me). But M-x shows no available completions
> for py-execute-file:
> 
> Possible completions are:
> py-electric-backspace                  py-electric-colon
> py-electric-delete                     py-end-of-def-or-class
> py-execute-buffer                      py-execute-def-or-class
> py-execute-import-or-reload            py-execute-region
> py-execute-string
> 
> Although C-h f py-execute-file shows it and says it is defined in 
> python-mode.el.
> 
> 
> Next, quick test with print u'\xA9':
> 
> 1. Invoke python shell manually:
> 
> M-x py-shell
>>>> print u'\xA9'
> ©
> 
> 
> 2. Create new buffer containing the same print command, switch it to 
> python-mode
> and use py-execute-buffer:
> 
>>>> ## working on region in file /usr/tmp/python-9773IlV.py...
> ©
> 

So that's what it should do(?)

> 
> 3. Close python shell (opened at step 1) and invoke py-execute-buffer again:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa9' in position 
> 0: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> 
> Is this really a python problem?  I think there is a difference in how Emacs 
> spawns python
> process in each case.
> 
> 
> 

Hmm, yes, get the same error.
However, if I re-start ipython-shell parallel

it works again

In [11]: ## working on region in file /usr/tmp/python-3766xFD.py...
©


Maybe just start a python-shell to have a work-around?

Sorry, I'm not able to dive into now.

It may help, if you make a bug-report, having it noticed at least here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-mode

Thanks

Andreas