Re: Persistent error on 'make': [Python] ordinal not in range(128)

[Francisco Vila]

2011/3/15 Francisco Vila <address@hidden>:
> Hello. This happens on _fresh_ repositories in one of my systems.
> Clues suggest that my python installation is misconfigured.
>
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/fravd/source/lilypond/Documentation'
> LILYPOND_VERSION=2.13.54 /usr/bin/python ../scripts/lilypond-book.py
> -I ./ (...)  usage.tely
> ...
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in
> position 24: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> So lilypond-book has problems with usage.tely.  I have seen this
> problem sometimes exposed in users list, also related to
> lilypond-book, and a solution is never given.  If somebody has any
> ideas, I'll thank to hear them.

Well, I don't understand why it works, but I have completed 'make' and
'make doc' only after this change:

diff --git a/python/lilylib.py b/python/lilylib.py
index 3bf77f6..4be48e7 100644
--- a/python/lilylib.py
+++ b/python/lilylib.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ underscore = _
 # Maybe guess encoding from LANG/LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE?

 def encoded_write(f, s):
-    f.write (s.encode (f.encoding or 'utf_8'))
+    f.write (s.encode ('utf_8'))

 # ugh, Python 2.5 optparse requires Unicode strings in some argument
 # functions, and refuse them in some other places


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