[mythtv-users] mythvidexport.py failing on one episode -- still the non-ascii bug?

[Ian Evans]

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Nicolas Krzywinski <myth2 at site7even.de>
wrote:

> Am 15.05.2018 um 23:47 schrieb Ian Evans:
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 5:03 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 05/15/2018 11:41 AM, Ian Evans wrote:
>>
>>> since we're running it from the command line, we won't have a jobid so I
>>> followed the mythvidexport wiki and used chanid and starttime. In
>>> recordedprogram the chanid is 1091 and the starttime is 2011-08-23
>>> 23:30:00
>>> which I assume I change to 20110823233000
>>>
>>
>> Works if I subtract my standard UTC offset from the stored time, not
>> my DST offset.
>>
>> --
>> Bill
>>
>>
> Yep, adjusting the time got it to run and yes, it's a problem with an
> accented character in the episode title "The Panty Piñata Polarization":
>
> 2018-05-15 17:40:41.156820 I [23968] Python File Transfer Opening local
> file (w) -- /var/lib/mythtv/videos/Television/The Big Bang Theory/Season
> 2/The Big Bang Theory - S2E07 - The Panty Piñata Polarization.mpg
> 2018-05-15 17:40:41.157089 D [23968] Python Database Connection Acquiring
> connection from pool
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/mythtv/mythvidexport.py", line 437, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/share/mythtv/mythvidexport.py", line 409, in main
>     export = VIDEO(opts)
>   File "/usr/share/mythtv/mythvidexport.py", line 77, in __init__
>     self.copy()
>   File "/usr/share/mythtv/mythvidexport.py", line 236, in copy
>     dstfp = self.vid.open('w', nooverwrite=True)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/dataheap.py", line 980,
> in open
>     mode, False, nooverwrite, self._db)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/mythproto.py", line 297,
> in ftopen
>     sg.dirname+filename)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/logging.py", line 431, in
> __call__
>     self.log(mask, level, message, detail)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/logging.py", line 377, in
> log
>     self._logdatabase(mask, level, message, detail)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/logging.py", line 428, in
> _logdatabase
>     message + (' -- {0}'.format(detail) if detail else '')))
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in
> position 105: ordinal not in range(128)
> 2018-05-15 17:40:41.217882 D [23968] Python Database Connection database
> callback received -- 0x7f4c75b3e628
> 2018-05-15 17:40:41.218213 D [23968] Python Database Connection Releasing
> connection to pool
>
> Looking at github I see the script hasn't been updated in a few years.
> It's a great script but I don't know python. Anyway to patch it or should I
> just shrug and temporarily change the "Piñata" to "Pinata" and change it
> back after the export?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Did you tried setting utf8 charset like this?
>
> PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 python /srv/bin/mythvidexport.py --skiplist
> --listingonly --delete %JOBID%
>
>

Took your suggestion and added PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 to the start of the
command line. Got the same result at the end of the logging:

"UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' i"n
position 105: ordinal not in range(128)"
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