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How to get unicode from python to $INFO label - bossanova808 - 2012-02-23 07:17
I have some code that uses this string:
Code:
u'Sigur R\xc3\xb3s'(python repr())
...which would appear a to be a utf-8 encoded unicode string (Although I ma very weak in this area!)
and I am setting that to a window property via:
Code:
xbmcgui.Window(xbmcgui.getCurrentWindowId()).setProperty("CURRENTARTIST", artist)(in a WindowXML)
I suspect I am going wrong somewhere basic but an arvo of researching various encoding things has got me no closer...
anyone have ideas??
...however, this results in gobbledygook on screen.
- VictorV - 2012-02-23 21:30
Try to convert it to a bytestring
s = u'Sigur R\xc3\xb3s'.encode('utf-8')
- bossanova808 - 2012-02-25 02:19
Unfortunately that doesn't work...same result.
Any other ideas - I think the info IS unicode utf-8, but I think maybe XBMC isn't interpreting it as such
- bossanova808 - 2012-02-25 02:24
Hmmm ok passing it just artist = 'Sigur R\xc3\xb3s' WITHOUT making it a uncide string works!
That's odd...must be a double translation thing I guess?
Now, how to get the unciode strings into basic string in python - i.e. cast them I guess. I find this area a bit confusing....
- bossanova808 - 2012-02-25 02:36
The problem is I am using a downstream library and is returning strings with these characters in them, so 'Sigur R\xc3\xb3s' - and these are type as unicode.
If I then pass them as this type, they come out in xbmc wonky. I need to just cast them or get the literal value of the string...but I can't seem to just get the literal value from a unicode string in a variable...
I think I am missing something obvious but have been missing it for two days now and it's driving me nuts!
Any python experts know how to do this??
- giftie - 2012-02-25 04:48
bossanova808 Wrote:The problem is I am using a downstream library and is returning strings with these characters in them, so 'Sigur R\xc3\xb3s' - and these are type as unicode.
If I then pass them as this type, they come out in xbmc wonky. I need to just cast them or get the literal value of the string...but I can't seem to just get the literal value from a unicode string in a variable...
I think I am missing something obvious but have been missing it for two days now and it's driving me nuts!
Any python experts know how to do this??
I thought it looked like a unicoded utf-8 string...
I use the following python code to insure that the string is in utf-8 coding.
Code:
def get_unicode( to_decode ):
final = []
try:
temp_string = to_decode.encode('utf8')
return to_decode
except:
while True:
try:
final.append(to_decode.decode('utf8'))
break
except UnicodeDecodeError, exc:
# everything up to crazy character should be good
final.append(to_decode[:exc.start].decode('utf8'))
# crazy character is probably latin1
final.append(to_decode[exc.start].decode('latin1'))
# remove already encoded stuff
to_decode = to_decode[exc.start+1:]
return "".join(final)Then I send to XBMC the string with a '.decode("utf-8")' This shows the artist in the proper format(usually..)
- bossanova808 - 2012-02-25 05:09
mmm, that seemed to give me the same results. This might make it clearer (perhaps)!
Code:
title, artist, album = self.player.getCurrentTrack()
print "artist (raises exception about ordinal out of range if printed as is) "
print repr(artist)
artist2 = 'Sigur R\xc3\xb3s'
print "artist2 is " + artist2
print type(artist2)
#newa =self.get_unicode(artist)
xbmcgui.Window(xbmcgui.getCurrentWindowId()).setProperty("CURRENTTITLE", title)
xbmcgui.Window(xbmcgui.getCurrentWindowId()).setProperty("CURRENTARTIST", artist)and output:
Code:
14:06:58 T:756 NOTICE: artist (raises exception about ordinal out of range if printed as is)
14:06:58 T:756 NOTICE: u'Sigur R\xc3\xb3s'
14:06:58 T:756 NOTICE: artist2 is Sigur Rós
14:06:58 T:756 NOTICE: <type 'str'>If I pass artist 2 - correct onscreen display
pass artist 1 - gobbldeygook
- giftie - 2012-02-25 06:12
What's the code in self.player.getCurrentTrack() I think the problem is there. With out the u' prefix it properly works, as you say, but nothing seems to be able to strip out.
bossanova808 Wrote:mmm, that seemed to give me the same results. This might make it clearer (perhaps)!
Code:
title, artist, album = self.player.getCurrentTrack()
print "artist (raises exception about ordinal out of range if printed as is) "
print repr(artist)
artist2 = 'Sigur R\xc3\xb3s'
print "artist2 is " + artist2
print type(artist2)
#newa =self.get_unicode(artist)
xbmcgui.Window(xbmcgui.getCurrentWindowId()).setProperty("CURRENTTITLE", title)
xbmcgui.Window(xbmcgui.getCurrentWindowId()).setProperty("CURRENTARTIST", artist)
and output:
Code:
14:06:58 T:756 NOTICE: artist (raises exception about ordinal out of range if printed as is)
14:06:58 T:756 NOTICE: u'Sigur R\xc3\xb3s'
14:06:58 T:756 NOTICE: artist2 is Sigur Rós
14:06:58 T:756 NOTICE: <type 'str'>
If I pass artist 2 - correct onscreen display
pass artist 1 - gobbldeygook
- bossanova808 - 2012-02-25 06:18
Code:
artist = self.playlist[currentIndex]['artist']
...which is looking at the result of getplaylist:
self.playlist = self.sb.playlist_get_info()
...
def playlist_get_info(self):
"""Get info about the tracks in the current playlist"""
amount = self.playlist_track_count()
response = self.request('status 0 %i' % amount, True)
encoded_list = response.split('playlist%20index')[1:]
playlist = []
for encoded in encoded_list:
data = [self.__unquote(x) for x in ('position' + encoded).split(' ')]
item = {}
for info in data:
info = info.split(':')
key = info.pop(0)
if key:
item[key] = ':'.join(info)
item['position'] = int(item['position'])
item['id'] = int(item['id'])
item['duration'] = float(item['duration'])
playlist.append(item)
return playlist
and __unquote is:
def __unquote(self, text):
try:
import urllib.parse
return urllib.parse.unquote (text, encoding=self.charset)
except ImportError:
import urllib
return urllib.unquote(text)
(it does raise the exception and fo through ro just urllib.unquote(text) rather than the .parse version).I wrote basically none of those functions, they are from pysqueezecenter and I use this in lots of places, so ideally I want to fix it externally if I can...as if I change the output it will likely break other things.
I even tried using repr() on it and then stripping off the u' and the final ' in a gross hack but that didn't work...which surprised me.
- giftie - 2012-02-25 07:33
I know you really don't want to change the coding, but can you change the response line to the following:
Code:
response = self.request('status 0 %i' % amount, False)bossanova808 Wrote:Code:
artist = self.playlist[currentIndex]['artist']
...which is looking at the result of getplaylist:
self.playlist = self.sb.playlist_get_info()
...
def playlist_get_info(self):
"""Get info about the tracks in the current playlist"""
amount = self.playlist_track_count()
response = self.request('status 0 %i' % amount, True)
encoded_list = response.split('playlist%20index')[1:]
playlist = []
for encoded in encoded_list:
data = [self.__unquote(x) for x in ('position' + encoded).split(' ')]
item = {}
for info in data:
info = info.split(':')
key = info.pop(0)
if key:
item[key] = ':'.join(info)
item['position'] = int(item['position'])
item['id'] = int(item['id'])
item['duration'] = float(item['duration'])
playlist.append(item)
return playlist
and __unquote is:
def __unquote(self, text):
try:
import urllib.parse
return urllib.parse.unquote (text, encoding=self.charset)
except ImportError:
import urllib
return urllib.unquote(text)
(it does raise the exception and fo through ro just urllib.unquote(text) rather than the .parse version).
I wrote basically none of those functions, they are from pysqueezecenter and I use this in lots of places, so ideally I want to fix it externally if I can...as if I change the output it will likely break other things.
I even tried using repr() on it and then stripping off the u' and the final ' in a gross hack but that didn't work...which surprised me.