What steps will reproduce the problem?
Trying to use a unicode string that contains a non-ascii character, as a value
on a record.
What is the expected output?
Successful instantiation of a DataFrame object
What do you see instead?
An exception caused by trying to convert a non-ascii unicode string into ascii:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "non_ascii_char_table_header.py", line 19, in <module>
for col_name, col in zip(header, zip(*records))
File "/home/jerojasro/.virtualenvs/zinobe_dashboard/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyvttbl/base.py", line 86, in __init__
super(DataFrame, self).update(*args, **kwds)
File "/home/jerojasro/.virtualenvs/zinobe_dashboard/lib/python2.7/_abcoll.py", line 500, in update
self[key] = value
File "/home/jerojasro/.virtualenvs/zinobe_dashboard/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyvttbl/base.py", line 347, in __setitem__
__setitem__(key, np.array(item, dtype=self._get_nptype(key)))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xed' in position 1:
ordinal not in range(128)
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
pyvttbl==0.5.2.2 , installed through pip, on Ubuntu Linux
Please provide any additional information below.
See attached files:
non_ascii_char_in_record.py : example code that causes the crash reported
string_encoding_patch : suggested patch to fix the issue
Original issue reported on code.google.com by javier.r...@axiacore.com on 5 Aug 2013 at 8:25
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
javier.r...@axiacore.com
on 5 Aug 2013 at 8:25Attachments: