What steps will reproduce the problem?

The following test script fails with 0.9, but works fine with 0.8:

import json import couchdb

db = couchdb.Server(u"https://<username>:<password>@<server>")['<database>'] docs = [{u'Type':"TestDoc", u'Test':True, u'val':unichr(40960)}] ret = db.update( docs ) print ret

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The write should succeed.

The exception is:

File "couch_encoding_test.py", line 10, in <module> ret = db.update( docs ) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/CouchDB-0.9-py2.7.egg/couchdb/client.py", line 764, in update _, _, data = self.resource.post_json('_bulk_docs', body=content) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/CouchDB-0.9-py2.7.egg/couchdb/http.py", line 527, in post_json **params) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/CouchDB-0.9-py2.7.egg/couchdb/http.py", line 546, in _request_json headers=headers, **params) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/CouchDB-0.9-py2.7.egg/couchdb/http.py", line 542, in _request credentials=self.credentials) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/CouchDB-0.9-py2.7.egg/couchdb/http.py", line 327, in request resp = _try_request_with_retries(iter(self.retry_delays)) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/CouchDB-0.9-py2.7.egg/couchdb/http.py", line 285, in _try_request_with_retries return _try_request() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/CouchDB-0.9-py2.7.egg/couchdb/http.py", line 307, in _try_request conn.endheaders(body) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 954, in endheaders self._send_output(message_body) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 812, in _send_output msg += message_body UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xea in position 52: ordinal not in range(128)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

couchdb-python 0.9, ubuntu 12.04

Please provide any additional information below.

If the parameter to couchdb.Server is a str instead of a unicode object, the script executes correctly.

I tried this test case and couldn't get it to fail on the current tip of the default branch:

diff --git a/couchdb/tests/client.py b/couchdb/tests/client.py --- a/couchdb/tests/client.py +++ b/couchdb/tests/client.py @@ -185,6 +185,10 @@ self.assertEqual(u'Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn', self.db[u'føø'][u'bår']) self.assertEqual(u'ASCII', self.db[u'føø'][u'baz'])

• def test_unicode_235(self):
• doc = {u'type': 'test', u'val': unichr(40960)}
• self.db.update([doc]) + def test_disallow_nan(self): try: self.db['foo'] = {'number': float('nan')}

This makes me think this has been fixed already. If you can still reproduce it with a more recent changeset, feel free to reopen.

"If the parameter to couchdb.Server is a str instead of a unicode object, the script executes correctly."

In other words, the behaviour changes depending on whether the couchdb.Server object is initialized with a string or a unicode string.

Right. Have you tried reproducing with current tip? Because I still can't.

I have reproduced the problem in 0.10 and the latest couchdb-python from github.

Looking at your test code it is not obvious to me that the Server object is being initialized with a unicode string, which is necessary to trigger the behavior I'm describing.

This issue has been migrated to GitHub. Please continue discussion here:

https://github.com/djc/couchdb-python/issues/235