Logging Error

I've got a python script that is logging song titles, artist, etc. and while the script works fine, I do run into an error message occasionally. Here is the part of my script that I'm sure is causing the problem:

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Track2 = indigo.variables[142028227].value #just played Track
Artist2 = indigo.variables[918614858].value #just played Artist
Album2 = indigo.variables[374325596].value #Just played Album
RunTime = indigo.variables[118845916].value #math played time

import time
time = time.strftime("%m" "%d"" " "%I"":""%M""%p")
list ="\t\n%s \t%s \t%s \t%s \t%s" %(time, RunTime, Track2, Artist2, Album2)


with open('/Users/kitchen/SynologyDrive/MyLogs/StudioSongs.txt', 'a') as outfile:
    output = list
    outfile.write(output)



and here is the error message:

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Script Error                    embedded script: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 204: ordinal not in range(128)
   Script Error                    Exception Traceback (most recent call shown last):

     embedded script, line 29, at top level
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 204: ordinal not in range(128)

I have no doubt this is because part of the text of one of the fields I'm logging has a character that isn't a value... in this case

André

so half-way guessing I need to convert the text from the fields into strings as opposed to values, yes?

I used this snipped elsewhere on another script:

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time = (indigo.server.getTime().strftime('%Y-%m')) #2022-01

date_string = str(time)

so tried this:

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TrackX = indigo.variables[142028227].value #just played Track
Track2 = str(TrackX)


but this give me the same error messages so I'm guessing this requires a more complex solution. Guessing the UnicodeEncoderError is a big clue so need to somehow convert my un-Unicode text to something else...

[matt (support)]

Try changing this line from:

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list ="\t\n%s \t%s \t%s \t%s \t%s" %(time, RunTime, Track2, Artist2, Album2)

to:

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list = u"\t\n%s \t%s \t%s \t%s \t%s" %(time, RunTime, Track2, Artist2, Album2)

Hey Matt
Thanks for your reply. I went back to my original script posted here and copied your line in where indicated, but still get the same error message.

Part of the bigger process is to trigger AirFoil to populate variable entries before they are written to the log file. So what are in the variables comes directly from AirFoil, which of course gets the info from the Music app. The error only happens when special characters are in any of the fields I'm logging.

[matt (support)]

Can you copy/paste your entire script? The error indicates it is on line 29 but the script you posted isn't that long.

Here it is...

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import time
time = (indigo.server.getTime().strftime('%H:%M:%S')) #Start Time
indigo.variable.updateValue(1059249795, time) #write start time to variable

from datetime import datetime
startTimeVariable = indigo.variables[744500332].value  # start time
endTimeVariable = indigo.variables[1059249795].value  # End Time

startTime = datetime.strptime(startTimeVariable, "%H:%M:%S")
endTime = datetime.strptime(endTimeVariable, "%H:%M:%S")

# write just played and running time to txt file

runningTime = endTime - startTime 
indigo.variable.updateValue(118845916, str(runningTime))  # does math = Running time

Track2 = indigo.variables[142028227].value #just played Track
Artist2 = indigo.variables[918614858].value #just played Artist
Album2 = indigo.variables[374325596].value #Just played Album
RunTime = indigo.variables[118845916].value #math played time

import time
time = time.strftime("%m" "%d"" " "%I"":""%M""%p")
list = u"\t\n%s \t%s \t%s \t%s \t%s" %(time, RunTime, Track2, Artist2, Album2)



with open('/Users/kitchen/SynologyDrive/MyLogs/StudioSongs.txt', 'a') as outfile:
    output = list
    outfile.write(output)


and even this short version of the script give the same error message when

André

is in the variable]

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Track2 = indigo.variables[142028227].value #just played Track
list = u"\t\n%s" %(Track2)

with open('/Users/kitchen/SynologyDrive/MyLogs/StudioSongs.txt', 'a') as outfile:
    output = list
    outfile.write(output)

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Script Error                    embedded script: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)
   Script Error                    Exception Traceback (most recent call shown last):

     embedded script, line 8, at top level
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)

You can't use %s to substitute a unicode value.

Change

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list = u"\t\n%s" %(Track2)

to

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list = u"\t\n{}".format(Track2)

Ok so with this code, I still get the same error message when André is in the variable:

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Track2 = indigo.variables[142028227].value #just played Track
list = u"\t\n{}".format(Track2)

with open('/Users/kitchen/SynologyDrive/MyLogs/StudioSongs.txt', 'a') as outfile:
    output = list
    outfile.write(output)


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Script Error                    embedded script: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)
   Script Error                    Exception Traceback (most recent call shown last):

     embedded script, line 2, at top level
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)


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Track2 = indigo.variables[142028227].value #just played Track
list = u"\t\n{}".format(Track2)

with open('/tmp/StudioSongs.txt', 'a') as outfile:
    output = list.encode("utf8")
    outfile.write(output)


Thanks

That does it.

I just need to integrate it into the whole script, but I'm positive I can figure out how to manage that.

THANKS for your help!!


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So the "list" line gave me a few problems, but thru trial and error, and a bit of intuition, I came up with this which works perfectly.

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list = u"\t\n{} \t{} \t{} \t{} \t{}".format(time, RunTime, Track2, Artist2, Album2)

Thanks again for your help.