[mythtvnz] Debugging epgsnoop problem.

[Robin Gilks]

> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 10:59 +1200, Steve Hodge wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:
>>         Me and epgsnoop - we do have problems!!
>>
>>         The latest one may be related to updating to python-2.5.
>>         epgsnoop (after a
>>         re-install just in case!!) errors as follows:
>>
>>         Traceback (most recent call last):
>>          File "/usr/local/bin/epgsnoop", line 167, in <module>
>>            print output(channels, programs)
>>         UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in
>>         position
>>         302228-302268: ordinal not in range(128)
>>
>> I was having the same issue. I fixed it by changing the 4th to last
>> line in outputter.py to:
>> return '\n'.join(output).decode('iso-8859-1',replace)
>> and removing the
>> ... .decode('latin-1)
>> statements from the name and description sections in snooper.py.
>>
>
> As you can probably tell I know little about unicode/character
> encodings/etc.
>
> I find it odd that I don't see the same issue here with the same code. I
> will make some time to look into the issue (again) but it won't be for a
> couple of weeks unfortunately as I'm busy with a conference for the next
> little while.
>
> hads

No worries - I've just switched the grabber from localhost to your
repository :-)

-- 
Robin Gilks