NoneType to unicode

[John Morey]

My program reads ID3 tags from MP3 files and enters them into a database.
I have been testing it on a variety of MP3s, including ones with
weird characters in the tags (such as norweigan black metal bands)
When this happens it throws the program as they are outside the ascii
range, the program crashes as soon as I try to bind the tag to a string
using the str() function.

I have tried using the encode() function to change the values to unicode
however I cannot do this because they are returned from the id3
library as "NoneType" instances. which means I need to convert
to a string first (which i can't do because it crashes the application)

Any ideas?
cheers

[Alan Franzoni]

Re: NoneType to unicode

John Morey on comp.lang.pytho n said:
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> I have tried using the encode() function to change the values to unicode
> however I cannot do this because they are returned from the id3
> library as "NoneType" instances. which means I need to convert
> to a string first (which i can't do because it crashes the application)[/color]

NoneType is just the type of None. It should mean that your ID3 library
returns 'None' when trying to read non-ascii ID3s. I think you should check
your ID3 library, not your main program.

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