Non-ASCII characters in project name causes error

[seniorio]

Hey, looks like I’m getting Python encoding errors if my Pivotal project name has a non-ASCII character in it, specifically ‘é’ in my case.

The error:

$ pivotal_tools changelog
Select a Project:
[1] An ASCII Project Name
[2] Another ASCII Project Name
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/pivotal_tools", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('pivotal-tools==0.14', 'console_scripts', 'pivotal_tools')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pivotal_tools/cli.py", line 508, in main
    project = prompt_project(arguments)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pivotal_tools/cli.py", line 353, in prompt_project
    print "[{}] {}".format(idx+1, project.name)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)

The line in question:

print "[{}] {}".format(idx+1, project.name)

Adding the unicode u does fix the problem:

print u"[{}] {}".format(idx+1, project.name)

But I guess this will be a tool-wide issue. Happy to submit a PR if needed, depending on what you think the correct way to fix this is.

Cheers :)

[vielmath]

I have the same issue but in stories content.

[jtushman]

Cool. I'll get on this hopefully soon. PR are always appreciated. Is it really as simple as adding a u -- are there other approaches that we should consider?

[seniorio]

Unfortunately I’m not a Python dev so don’t want to accidentally give bad advice; this is an interesting read: http://blog.notdot.net/2010/07/Getting-unicode-right-in-Python

I’ll keep looking for best-practices in the meantime and submit a PR if I find something.

Cheers!