UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xab' in position 950: ordinal not in range(128)

"malformed" contact line causes stem to break when printing that desc(stem parses it fine). Attached descriptor.

added component::archived/stem owner::atagar priority::medium resolution::fixed status::closed type::defect labels

Trac:
desc.txt

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?

Trac:
Status: new to needs_information

Aha thanks!

Is there a way to fix Descriptor.str so that it doesn't break?

Ah ha, that's a bug. Thanks for the catch!

https://gitweb.torproject.org/stem.git/commitdiff/1a099106c43e37bf41f5c1f803f27cd2aad270f5

Trac:
Status: needs_information to closed
Resolution: N/A to fixed

closed