Python: pygame.mixer.music and unicode filenames

Question

When you try to use pygame.mixer.music.open() with a filename string containing Unicode characters, it seems to throw a UnicodeEncodeError all the time:

File "C:\TestPlayer.py", line 43, in <module>
pygame.mixer.music.load(x)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 12-19: 
ordinal not in range(128)

(lines broken for your viewing pleasure)

I checked for x's existance using os.path.exists(x), which returned True. Am I doing something wrong? If not, is it possible to manually fix pygame's mixer (which is a .pyd file)?

I'm using Python 2.6, and Pygame 1.9.1.

I forgot to add the file I tried opening is an mp3 file, but Pygame's website/wiki states pygame.mixer.music should work with those. In fact, it does, as long as the filename only contains ASCII characters.

Did you try decoding the filename before passing it? – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Dec 01 '10 at 17:02 — Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, Dec 01 '10 at 17:02
I did, which didn't seem to work either. – lvk Dec 01 '10 at 17:07 — lvk, Dec 01 '10 at 17:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '10 at 20:38

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Instead of passing a filename, open the file in a unicode compatible way and pass the file object to pygame.mixer.music.load

answered Dec 01 '10 at 20:38

SingleNegationElimination

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I tried using open() and passing that object, but it didn't seem to work. Am I doing it wrong again? – lvk Dec 01 '10 at 21:52
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what is the error you are getting? is the exception still thrown? – SingleNegationElimination Dec 01 '10 at 22:14
Sorry I forgot to include that; I got 'pygame.error: Module format not recognized', even when my filename is made up of just ASCII characters. – lvk Dec 01 '10 at 22:22
Are you on Windows? Did you open the file with the 'rb' binary mode flag? – Russell Borogove Dec 01 '10 at 22:59
Yes, I am on Windows 7. Neither the r or rb flags proved successful. – lvk Dec 01 '10 at 23:28

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 25 '11 at 12:19

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You tried

fle = open(filename, 'rb')
pygame.mixer.music.load(fle)

and

fle = open(filename, 'rb')
pygame.mixer.load(fle.read())

Or you could try, i dont know, something like

fle = open(filename, 'rb')
foo = fle.read()
pygame.mixer.load(fle.encode('ascii'))

answered Sep 25 '11 at 12:19

Fabio

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FYI, from PEP8: If a function argument's name clashes with a reserved keyword, it is generally better to append a single trailing underscore rather than use an abbreviation or spelling corruption. Thus "print_" is better than "prnt". (Perhaps better is to avoid such clashes by using a synonym.) – Mu Mind Feb 27 '12 at 07:16

Python: pygame.mixer.music and unicode filenames

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