logging module and binary strings

[Frank Aune]

Hello,

---- snip ----Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 773, in emit
stream.write(fs % msg.encode("UTF-8"))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xfe in position 10:
ordinal not in range(128)Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 773, in emit
stream.write(fs % msg.encode("UTF-8"))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xfe in position 10:
unexpected code byte

---- snip ----

Is there any way to log the above value of x "properly" using the python
logging module? By properly I mean logging the value displayed when entering
just x in the python shell and pressing enter.

Regards,
Frank

 

[Peter Otten]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 773, in emit
stream.write(fs % msg.encode("UTF-8"))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xfe in position 10:
ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 773, in emit
stream.write(fs % msg.encode("UTF-8"))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xfe in position 10:
unexpected code byte

Is there any way to log the above value of x "properly" using the python
logging module? By properly I mean logging the value displayed when
entering just x in the python shell and pressing enter.

How about logging.info(repr(x))?

Peter