Python encoding for pipe.communicate
- by Brian M. Hunt
I'm calling pipe.communicate from Python's subprocess module from Python 2.6. I get the following error from this code:
from subprocess import Popen
pipe = Popen(cwd)
pipe.communicate( data )
For an arbitrary cwd, and where data that contains unicode (specifically 0xE9):
Exec. exception: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 507: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
... stdout, stderr = pipe.communicate( data )
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py",
line 671, in communicate
return self._communicate(input)
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py",
line 1177, in _communicate
bytes_written = os.write(self.stdin.fileno(), chunk)
This is happening, I presume, because pipe.communicate() is expecting ASCII encoded string, but data is unicode.
Is this the problem I'm encountering, and i sthere a way to pass unicode to pipe.communicate()?
Thank you for reading!
Brian
