exceptions with python unicode encode/decode functions (why doesn't errors=ignore actually ignore th
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Does anyone know why the string conversion functions throw exceptions when errors="ignore" is passed? How can I convert from regular Python string objects to unicode without errors being thrown? Thanks very much!
python -c "import codecs; codecs.open('tmp', 'wb', encoding='utf8', errors='ignore').write('?????')"
returns
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/codecs.py", line 686, in write
return self.writer.write(data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/codecs.py", line 351, in write
data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
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