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Santosh
Santosh

Reputation: 45

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode' latin-1

I am trying to create an HTML Report for my unit Test Script, When i try to run the code, it is throwing, this error AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

Below is the part of code, where it is showing error :-

if isinstance(o,str):
    # TODO: some problem with 'string_escape': it escape \n and mess up formating
    # uo = unicode(o.encode('string_escape'))
    uo = o.decode('latin-1')
else:
    uo = o 
if isinstance(e,str):
    # TODO: some problem with 'string_escape': it escape \n and mess up formating
    # ue = unicode(e.encode('string_escape'))
    ue = e.decode('latin-1')
else:
    ue = e

script = self.REPORT_TEST_OUTPUT_TMPL % dict(
    id = tid,
    output = saxutils.escape(uo+ue),
)

The above code is from HTMLTestRunner.py File. Please help in debugging this issue.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3001

Answers (1)

Dean Fenster
Dean Fenster

Reputation: 2395

I assume you are using python3 (because of the tag in your question)

In python3 there is no longer a unicode type, it is simply str - str is a text type, which is already unicode decoded, therefore, there is no longer a decode method for str.

For working with strings, there is the bytes type that has a decode method (decode-ing bytes return str, and encode-ing str returns bytes.

So from now on - instead of using decode when the type is str, use decode only if the type is bytes.

Meaning your code should look like this:

if isinstance(o,bytes):
    uo = o.decode('latin-1')
else:
    uo = o 
if isinstance(e,bytes):
    ue = e.decode('latin-1')
else:
    ue = e

script = self.REPORT_TEST_OUTPUT_TMPL % dict(
    id = tid,
    output = saxutils.escape(uo+ue),
)

Upvotes: 3

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