wddx problem with entities

[Tim Arnold]

I'm confused about why I get this error:
UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

when I try to load a wddx file containing this string:
<string>The image file, gif/aper&#231;u.png , does
not exist.</string>

When I loop through the file as if it's text and check the ord() value of
each character, of course it's clean. Do I have to replace numbered entities
in the wddx file before I can wddx.load() it?
thanks!
--tim

example program:
-------------------
from xml.marshal import wddx

datastring = '''<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wddxPacket SYSTEM "wddx_0090.dtd" >
<wddxPacket version="0.9">
<header/>
<data><struct >
<string>The image file, gif/aper&#231;u.png ,does not exist.</string>
</struct></data></wddxPacket>'''

data = wddx.loads(data string)

[Tim Arnold]

Re: wddx problem with entities

"Tim Arnold" <tiarno@sas.com > wrote in message
news:e66k6n$bc5 $1@foggy.unx.sa s.com...[color=blue]
> I'm confused about why I get this error:
> UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> when I try to load a wddx file containing this string:
> <string>The image file, gif/aper&#231;u.png , does
> not exist.</string>
>
> When I loop through the file as if it's text and check the ord() value of
> each character, of course it's clean. Do I have to replace numbered
> entities in the wddx file before I can wddx.load() it?
> thanks!
> --tim
>
> example program:
> -------------------
> from xml.marshal import wddx
>
> datastring = '''<?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE wddxPacket SYSTEM "wddx_0090.dtd" >
> <wddxPacket version="0.9">
> <header/>
> <data><struct >
> <string>The image file, gif/aper&#231;u.png ,does not exist.</string>
> </struct></data></wddxPacket>'''
>
> data = wddx.loads(data string)[/color]

Replying to my own post.
I got around this problem, which *looks* like a bug to me, (although I'm
sure I don't understand the internals of xml.marshal) with this:

self.data = wddx.loads(''.j oin(codecs.open (self.filename,
errors='ignore' ,encoding='asci i').readlines() ))
where self.filename contains the numbered entity.

just in case anyone else out there is using wddx to communicate between
python and php.

--Tim Arnold