[socal-piggies] Py2exe, PyGTK TextView encoding problem nightmare hassle annoyance ...

[Greg McClure]

AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! THAT WAS IT!!!

Thank you. Absolutely awesome. And such a quick response, really, that
was just great Daniel, thanks. I'm a py2exe novice, so that was quite
a learning experience.

I simply changed my setup.py opts to include:
...
'py2exe': {
    'includes': 'pango,atk,gobject,encodings.utf_8'
...

Then I rebuilt it and Bingo-was-his-name-o.

Peace,
Greg


On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:22:32 -0800, Daniel Arbuckle
<djarb at highenergymagic.org> wrote:
> Just an off the cuff guess, but perhaps py2exe is not able to recognize
> that lib/python2.x/encodings/utf_8.py* should be included in the
> application? The codecs are imported through a rather roundabout
> mechanism.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 04:05:13PM -0800, Greg McClure wrote:
> > Hello my fellow Piggies!
> >
> > I've copied the text of a message I posted to the PyGTK mailing list
> > in hopes that someone in our group might have some experience with
> > PyGTK and would have an inkling of what I'm doing incorrectly. I feel
> > like I'm missing something plain because my problem seems as though it
> > would be fairly common if what was trying to do was really tricky. It
> > seems like a fairly straightforward, common task.
> >
> > In short, I'm extracting some character data from an XML file, much of
> > which is in Spanish or French or German, whatever, and writing the
> > data to a TextBuffer obtained from a PyGTK TextView. The app works
> > fine when run under the Python interpreter, but when I run the app
> > through py2exe, well, the app starts up just fine and processes ascii
> > text all right, but chokes on any latin characters, like '?', '?' or
> > '?'.
> >
> > Argh!
> >
> > I've checked the PyGTK docs and, offhand, I don't seem to be missing
> > any TextView or TextBuffer properties which would futz with the
> > encoding. Also, GTK 2.0+ handles UTF-8 by default, right?
> >
> > Any insights would be appreciated.
> >
> > All best,
> > Greg
> >
> > ------------
> >
> > I have an app writing data from an XML file to a TextBuffer obtained
> > in the usual way:
> >
> > tv = gtk.TextView()
> > buffer = tv.get_buffer()
> >
> > self._buff_ref = buffer
> >
> > and then ...
> >
> > def write_buffer(self, buffer, text):
> >    buffer.set_text(text)
> >    tag = buffer.create_tag(None, size_points=20.0)
> >    start, end = buffer.get_bounds()
> >    buffer.apply_tag(tag, start, end)
> >
> > and then later on there'll be something like
> >
> > self.write_buffer(self._buff_ref, 'Happy happy joy joy')
> >
> > My problem is that when the app runs as a Python application
> > everything works fine, and latin characters like '?', '?' and '?'
> > display as they should. This normally wouldn't be a problem except
> > that when I compile the app with py2exe and run the .exe file in
> > dist/, normal ascii text displays just fine but the latin characters
> > make the app choke that the character is outside the ascii range.
> >
> > Yah!!! Help!!! If I do something like:
> >
> > buffer.set(text.encode('utf-8'))
> >
> > this doesn't help me out, the py2exe .exe file complains that it can't
> > find the encoder. I must be missing something straightforward. Any
> > help would be deeply appreciated.
> >
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