ascii codec errors with device names

Hi!

I dont know if its recommended to edit device names or not, anyway it seems to be working alright. But I ran into one issue today when I renamed one of my Apple Tv's as "AppleTV Yläkerta" and following issue raised into log:

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2020-10-05 16:33:17.691   ERROR          Plugin.periodCheck               in Line 5622 has error='ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 16: ordinal not in range(128)
looking at device:  UniFi_AppleTV_Yläkerta


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the error is in
text1= dev.name.encode("utf8").ljust(30) + u" status " + status.ljust(10) +"; set to UP, reset by ping "

and I thought that is the right way to do it..

Karl

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the error is in

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text1= dev.name.encode("utf8").ljust(30) + u" status "      + status.ljust(10) +";   set to UP,  reset by ping "


and I thought that is the right way to do it..

Karl

That last string needs to be unicode as well, since. you're concatenating them. A better way to do it is:

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text1 = u"{} status {};   set to UP,  reset by ping".format(dev.name.encode("utf8").ljust(30), status.ljust(10))


yes. i got it

need to add the u before the " AND drop the encode("utf8")

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z =  u"{} status {};   bla bla  ".format(dev.name.ljust(30), status.ljust(10))

works fine

the conversion to python 3 will be "exciting"


Karl

You can also use formatting specifiers inside the brackets to do your padding and get rid of the .ljust() calls as well.

Or:

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u"{0:30} status {1:10};   bla bla  ".format(dev.name, status)

which works in Python 2.x and 3.x.

[jay (support)]

Or:

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u"{0:30} status {1:10};   bla bla  ".format(dev.name, status)

which works in Python 2.x and 3.x.

+1 - though, rumor has it that the u"" syntax will be removed at some point. But that's in the future...

Version 7.33.285 fixed this issue! Now devices get updated even what characters their names got!

Thanks Karl

thanks for the feedback. it is always nice to get a positive feedback when things work .

and thanks for your patience

Karl