UnicodeEncodeError in django python3

Question

I want to handle the file uploaded by the guest, here is the views code:

def charset(request):                                   
    logging.info('charset')                             
    name = request.GET['name']                          
    file_path = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, name) 
    logging.info(file_path)                             
    logging.info(type(file_path))                       
    file1 = open(file_path.decode('utf8'), 'wb')        
    file1.write(b'test')                                
    file1.close()                                       
    return HttpResponse('success')

But an error occurred. The trace back is following:

UnicodeEncodeError at /upload/charset/
    'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 27-28: ordinal not in range(128)

You can repeat the error by visiting: My Wrong Website

I'm using environment as these:

python 3.4.3  
django 1.9.3   
apache2 2.4.7

But when I run server using python3 manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000. It works.
How can I fix this? Thank you for your attention. You can view the project code on the website github_of_my_django_tutorial.

The traceback on that link doesn't match the code you've posted above; there's no decode call. — Daniel Roseman
– Daniel Roseman, Commented May 27, 2016 at 9:17
Sorry, I have changed the code to this. I should use encode("utf8") to solve this. — ramwin
– ramwin, Commented May 30, 2016 at 1:09

dnaranjo · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-27 14:27:59Z

1

You need to encode the filename to UTF-8 first:

name = name.encode("utf8")

answered May 27, 2016 at 14:27

dnaranjo

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