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Reputation: 1767

Python 3 parsing iTunes library plist file using plistlib

I'm trying to parse a iTunes media library file, which is a plist file using python & plistlib. I wrote a simple python script:

import plistlib

plist = plistlib.readPlist('tunes.xml')
print(plist['Tracks'])

But when I try and run it an error occurs on line 3:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe9' in position 21970: ordinal not in range(128)

I've tried to load the file with a utf-8 encoding convert to a bytearray and use plistlib.readPlistFromBytes but still the error occurs

Which is the best way to fix this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1693

Answers (1)

Ned Deily
Ned Deily

Reputation: 85095

Chances are the terminal session or console you're running this in is not set to a UTF-8 compatible locale. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale for more info. For example, in US English locales:

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Upvotes: 2

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