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POPython 3 doesn't read unicode file on a new server
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copied!<p>My webpages are served by a script that dynamically imports a bunch of files with</p> <pre><code>try: with open (filename, 'r') as f: exec(f.read()) except IOError: pass </code></pre> <p>(actually, can you suggest a better method of importing a file? I'm sure there is one.)</p> <p>Sometimes the files have strings in different languages, like</p> <pre><code># contents of language.ru title = "Название" </code></pre> <p>Those were all saved as UTF-8 files. Python has no problem running the script in command line or serving a page from my MacBook:</p> <pre> OK: [server command line] python3.0 page.py /index.ru OK: http://whitebox.local/index.ru </pre> <p>but it throws an error when trying to serve a page from a server we just moved to:</p> <pre> 157 try: 158 with open (filename, 'r') as f: 159 exec(f.read()) 160 except IOError: pass 161 /usr/local/lib/python3.0/io.py in read(self=, n=-1) ... UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe1 in position 627: ordinal not in range(128) </pre> <p>All the files were copied from my laptop where they were perfectly served by Apache. What is the reason?</p> <p><strong>Update:</strong> I found out the default encoding for <code>open()</code> is platform-dependent so it was <code>utf8</code> on my laptop and <code>ascii</code> on server. I wonder if there is a per-program function to set it in Python 3 (<code>sys.setdefaultencoding</code> is used in <code>site</code> module and then deleted from the namespace).</p>

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