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kingardox
kingardox

Reputation: 127

python loop breaks on special chars in django template

So I am working with django and an external List of names and values. With a custom template tag I am trying to display some values in my html template.

Here is a example of what the list could look like:

names.txt

hello 4343.5
bye 43233.4
Hëllo 554.3
whatever 4343.8

My template tag looks like this (simplified names of variables):

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from django import template

register = template.Library()

@register.filter(name='operation_name')
def operation_name(member):
    with open('/pathtofile/member.txt','r') as f:
        for line in f:
            if member.member_name in line:
                number = float(line.split()[1])
                if number is not member.member_number:
                    member.member_number = number
                    member.save()
                return member.member_number
    return 'Not in List'

It works fine for entries without specials char. But it stops when a name in member.member_names has special chars. So if member.member_names would be Hëllo the entire script just stops. I can't return anything. This is driving me crazy. Even the names without special chars won't be displayed after any name with special chars occurred.

I appreciate any help, thanks in advance.

EDIT:

So this did the trick:

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

But I don't know if this is a good solution.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 185

Answers (1)

Piyush S. Wanare
Piyush S. Wanare

Reputation: 4933

This may help you try to compare both to unicode:-

if (member.member_name).decode('latin1') in (line).decode('latin1'):
    number = float(line.split()[1])
    if number is not member.member_number:
        member.member_number = number
        member.save()

Upvotes: 1

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