flexget seen search crashes when piping #1407
Description
Expected behaviour:
Get results of search piped to a file.
Actual behaviour:
flexget crashes with "codec can't encode character error"
Steps to reproduce:
flexget seen search 'pattern' | tee somefile
flexget seen search 'pattern' > somefile
Config:
No relevant config.
Log:
No log output is produced.
Additional information:
- Flexget Version: 2.3.27.dev
- Python Version: 2.7.12
- Installation method: git
- OS and version: Linux Mint 17 Kernel 3.19.3-031903-lowlatency
- Link to crash log:
$ bin/flexget seen search 'tv_' | tee ~/work/test ; bin/flexget seen search 'tv_' --porcelain | tee ~/work/test ; bin/flexget seen search 'tv_' > ~/work/test ; bin/flexget seen search 'tv_' --porcelain > ~/work/test
Could not start manager: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 1183797: ordinal not in range(128)
Could not start manager: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 1182978: ordinal not in range(128)
Could not start manager: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 1183797: ordinal not in range(128)
Could not start manager: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 1182978: ordinal not in range(128)
The same results occur with --porcelain.
This appears to be related to #1223, but the fix there does not work. However, the following change does work. I don't know what problems this may cause though.
$ git diff
diff --git a/flexget/terminal.py b/flexget/terminal.py
index 22a819c..b3bb4d2 100644
--- a/flexget/terminal.py
+++ b/flexget/terminal.py
@@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ def console(text, *args, **kwargs):
try:
print(text, *args, **kwargs)
except UnicodeEncodeError:
- text = text.encode(io_encoding, 'replace').decode(io_encoding)
+ #text = text.encode(io_encoding, 'replace').decode(io_encoding)
+ text = text.encode(io_encoding, 'replace')
print(text, *args, **kwargs)
kwargs['file'].flush() # flush to make sure the output is printed right away