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Str to Ascii Conversion

Str to Ascii Conversion

After attending some python tests I stumbled upon a different DecodeError. The situation is simple: instantiate a string with special characters and try to decode it. Tring to use the Unicode to Ascii method failed.

  1. def test_title_unicode(self):
  2.     from django.utils.encoding import force_unicode
  3.     title = 'è something!'
  4.     title = force_unicode(title)
  5.     title = title.encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
  1. error

The difference between the Unicode to Ascii and the current iteration was revealed by printing the variable type:

  1. def test_title_unicode(self):
  2.     from django.utils.encoding import force_unicode
  3.     title = 'è something'
  4.     print type(title)
  5.     #title = force_unicode(title)
  6.     #title = title.encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')

In order to decode a str variable we use a different method:

  1. def test_title_unicode(self):
  2.     title = 'è something'
  3.     print title
  4.     print type(title)
  5.     title2 = title.decode('latin-1')
  6.     print title2
  7.     print type(title2)
  8.     title3 = unicode(title2)
  9.     print title3
  10.     print type(title3)
  11.     title = title3.encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
  12.     print title

So make sure you check the type and choose the right aproach to convert.

PS: Remember that form.cleaned_data['var'] returns a unicode.



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