python: batch string en- / decoding

Question

i have following problem:

i wrote a python script and it needs inputparameters to run... but if the parameters include one of our german "umlaute" like äüö or ß the script stops with following error:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

and if i start the script with a batchfile, the "umlaute" are replaced with random chars like ?, some other variation of the ö....

pls help me.. thx :)

part of the code:

...
if batch_exe:
    try:
        aIndex = sys.argv.index("-a")
                buchungsart_regEx = sys.argv[aIndex+1]
        except:
                buchungsart_regEx = ""
else:
    ...
select_stmt = select_stmt + " AND REGEXP_LIKE (BUCHUNGSART, " + "'" + buchungsart_regEx + "')" 
...
db_list = sde_conn.execute(select_stmt) 
...

and the cmdinput is something like:

python C:\...\Script.py -i ..... -a äöüß

@jeb Wait...what am I not seeing here? – miradulo Mar 26 '15 at 14:22 — miradulo, Mar 26 '15 at 14:22
Post you code, so that we can see the error. – Aaron Mar 26 '15 at 14:27 — Aaron, Mar 26 '15 at 14:27

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 26 '15 at 14:22

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You could try adding the type of encoding at the top of your script:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

answered Mar 26 '15 at 14:22

Chronicler

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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Check this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/846931/1686094

You can use his sys.argv = win32_unicode_argv()

And maybe you can then encode your sys.argv with utf-8 for future use.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

Community

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answered Mar 26 '15 at 14:58

Aaron

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workes great if i manually insert my command! thx! but at the end i wanna use a batchfile to start the script and this isnt working yet... probably because a wrong string is created in the batchfile already.. – goldjunge Mar 26 '15 at 15:07

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