SickRage/sickbeard/encodingKludge.py

# Author: Nic Wolfe <nic@wolfeden.ca>
# URL: http://code.google.com/p/sickbeard/
#
# This file is part of Sick Beard.
#
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import os

from sickbeard import logger
import sickbeard

# This module tries to deal with the apparently random behavior of python when dealing with unicode <-> utf-8
# encodings. It tries to just use unicode, but if that fails then it tries forcing it to utf-8. Any functions
# which return something should always return unicode.

def fixStupidEncodings(x, silent=False):
    if type(x) == str:
        try:
            return x.decode(sickbeard.SYS_ENCODING)
        except UnicodeDecodeError:
            logger.log(u"Unable to decode value: "+repr(x), logger.ERROR)
            return None
    elif type(x) == unicode:
        return x
    else:
        logger.log(u"Unknown value passed in, ignoring it: "+str(type(x))+" ("+repr(x)+":"+repr(type(x))+")", logger.DEBUG if silent else logger.ERROR)
        return None

    return None

def fixListEncodings(x):
    if type(x) != list and type(x) != tuple:
        return x
    else:
        return filter(lambda x: x != None, map(fixStupidEncodings, x))

def callPeopleStupid(x):
    try:
        return x.encode(sickbeard.SYS_ENCODING)
    except UnicodeEncodeError:
        logger.log(u"YOUR COMPUTER SUCKS! Your data is being corrupted by a bad locale/encoding setting. Report this error on the forums or IRC please: "+repr(x)+", "+sickbeard.SYS_ENCODING, logger.ERROR)
        return x.encode(sickbeard.SYS_ENCODING, 'ignore')

def ek(func, *args, **kwargs):
    result = None

    if os.name == 'nt':
        result = func(*args, **kwargs)
    else:
        result = func(*[callPeopleStupid(x) if type(x) in (str, unicode) else x for x in args], **kwargs)

    if type(result) in (list, tuple):
        return fixListEncodings(result)
    elif type(result) == str:
        return fixStupidEncodings(result)
    else:
        return result