commit 5cd4898a141fcc8550b29333b93a89cbe060506b Author: Damian Johnson <atagar@torproject.org> Date: Sun Mar 15 14:59:38 2015 -0700 Avoid UnicodeDecodeError when reading the man page There's probably a better solution but that can wait for the rewrite of this util function. For now a quick fix for... Traceback (most recent call last): File "./run_seth", line 47, in <module> main() File "./run_seth", line 16, in main seth.starter.main() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/stem/util/conf.py", line 288, in wrapped return func(*args, config = config, **kwargs) File "/home/atagar/Desktop/seth/seth/starter.py", line 86, in main _load_tor_config_descriptions() File "/home/atagar/Desktop/seth/seth/starter.py", line 239, in _load_tor_config_descriptions seth.util.tor_config.load_configuration_descriptions(BASE_DIR) File "/home/atagar/Desktop/seth/seth/util/tor_config.py", line 1088, in load_configuration_descriptions load_option_descriptions() File "/home/atagar/Desktop/seth/seth/util/tor_config.py", line 241, in load_option_descriptions line = ui_tools.get_printable(line) File "/home/atagar/Desktop/seth/seth/util/ui_tools.py", line 176, in get_printable line = line.replace('\xc2', "'") UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) --- seth/util/tor_config.py | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/seth/util/tor_config.py b/seth/util/tor_config.py index b67445a..5786d69 100644 --- a/seth/util/tor_config.py +++ b/seth/util/tor_config.py @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ Helper functions for working with tor's configuration file. """ +import codecs import os import time import socket @@ -237,6 +238,7 @@ def load_option_descriptions(load_path = None, check_version = True): last_category, last_description = Category.GENERAL, "" for line in man_call_results: + line = codecs.latin_1_encode(line, 'replace')[0] line = ui_tools.get_printable(line) stripped_line = line.strip()