pyexiv2

UnicodeDecodeError when opening a file with unicode characters in the path

Bug #802176 reported by János Illés
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
pyexiv2
Fix Released
High
Olivier Tilloy
pyexiv2 0.3.1 "Challenges"

Bug Description

pyexiv2 throws UnicodeDecodeError when using it on files with unicode charachters

      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyexiv2/metadata.py", line 64, in __init__
        self.filename = filename.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())
    UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 31: ordinal not in range(128)

Converting the filename to unicode first will fix the issue:

    self.filename = unicode(filename,sys.getfilesystemencoding()).encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())

I'm using pyexiv2 0.3.0, compiled against 0.21.1 libexiv2

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Thanks for the report János, and sorry for the delay in answering.

In order for me to reproduce and fix the issue, could you please provide me the following information?

 • output of the following command: python -c "import sys; print sys.getfilesystemencoding(); print sys.getdefaultencoding()"
 • name of the file that triggers the bug
 • output of the following command: python -c "import os; print os.listdir('DIRECTORY')"
   (replace DIRECTORY with the full path to the parent directory that contains the file that triggers the bug)

Thanks in advance!

Changed in pyexiv2:
status: New → Incomplete
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János Illés (ijanos) wrote :

Hi,

$ python -c "import sys; print sys.getfilesystemencoding(); print sys.getdefaultencoding()"
UTF-8
ascii

The filename is standard like IMG0001.jpg, the problem is in with the image path: ~/Fotók/IMG0001.jpg

The listdir is irrelevant. I can trigger the bug with a singe image if the path or the filename contains non-ascii UTF-8 characters.

ps: sorry for the delay, looks like the spamfilter ate the notification email.

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Thanks for the feedback János. I can reproduce the issue, I'll investigate it.

Changed in pyexiv2:
assignee: nobody → Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
importance: Undecided → High
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Changed in pyexiv2:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Fixed with revision 358 in the trunk.

Changed in pyexiv2:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Markus Golser (golserma) wrote :

Just had this issues maybe a point release is a nice idea?

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Markus: yes, a point release is on my to-do list, it has been delayed but I hope to be able to get to it soon.

Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Changed in pyexiv2:
milestone: none → 0.3.1
Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Changed in pyexiv2:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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