[tor-bugs] #8265 [Stem]: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xab' in position 950: ordinal not in range(128)

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#8265: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xab' in
position 950: ordinal not in range(128)
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 Reporter:  gsathya  |          Owner:  atagar           
     Type:  defect   |         Status:  needs_information
 Priority:  normal   |      Milestone:                   
Component:  Stem     |        Version:                   
 Keywords:           |         Parent:                   
   Points:           |   Actualpoints:                   
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Changes (by atagar):

  * status:  new => needs_information


Comment:

 Hi Sathyanarayanan. The contact address is parsed by stem as a unicode
 string. It can be printed, you just need to be careful because str() will
 fail to convert it...

 {{{
 >>> from stem.descriptor import parse_file

 >>> with open('desc.txt') as descriptor_file:
 ...   desc = next(parse_file(descriptor_file))
 ...

 >>> desc.contact
 u'1024D/070E3F2D Marcus Griep \xabtormaster%xpdm%us\xbb'

 >>> print desc.contact
 1024D/070E3F2D Marcus Griep «tormaster%xpdm%us»

 >>> str(desc.contact)
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xab' in
 position 28: ordinal not in range(128)
 }}}

 Did you have any other questions?

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