UnicodeDecodeError when querying Recurring Profiles. #1

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1. johndagostino commented on Dec 15, 2010

   

   johndagostino

   on Dec 15, 2010

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   this looks like a simple fix ben.

   the _build_parmlist will need to check if the value is a instance of unicode when calculating the lengh

               if isinstance(value, unicode):
                   key = '%s[%d]' % (key.upper(), len(value.encode('utf-8')))
               else:
                   key = '%s[%d]' % (key.upper(), len(str(value)))
   

   then update the _do_request to encode the paramlist;

                   request = Request(
                          url = self.url_base, 
                          data = parmlist.encode('utf-8'),
                          headers = headers)
   

   update the client.py test file with this at the top

   # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
   

   and I updated the profile_modify call to change the first name to

   firstname=u'的'
2. bkeating commented on Dec 15, 2011

   

   bkeating

   on Dec 15, 2011

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   It's been exactly 365 days since you replied and Im just now getting this implemented. What you posted above works a charm. Im not sure though that the characters are being sent properly. I also tried firstnam=u'的' but when I check PayPal Manager, It displays as çš„. Perhaps PayPal manager does not decode unicode? So I tried to do a profile_inquiry to see if I can see the proper value in my interactive shell and hit an error; UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe7 in position 335: ordinal not in range(128) which is similar to what I got when doing a profile_modify but that was due to me not wrapping the value in unicode (firstname="的" --no u''). As far as profile_inquiry goes, im not quite sure what the next step should be to support unicode coming FROM paypal... Or if that is even the issue.

   Im going to continue reading up on unicode in Python but if you have any ideas or suggestions, Im all ears.

   Thanks again for your support. This module will haunt you forreeevvverrrr ;)

   edit: my latest commit contains your suggestions from your reply above. 495df5f
3. bkeating

   added a commit that references this issue on May 23, 2016

   Merge pull request #1 from sorter/baid-retrieval

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