Ordinal not in range exception

[Joel]

When launching scour to clean my svg (I have many gradients I am not using anymore, and I want to shrink the list), I have that output :
me@home:$ python scour.py -i myFile.svg -o output.svg
scour 0.24
Copyright Jeff Schiller, 2010
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scour.py", line 2432, in <module>
    out_string = scourString(in_string, options).encode("UTF-8")
  File "scour.py", line 2274, in scourString
    embedRasters(elem, options)
  File "scour.py", line 1919, in embedRasters
    href = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(infilename), href)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/posixpath.py", line 70, in join
    path += '/' + b
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)

I can give the input file if needed, but I prefer not to publish it publicly.

Thanks for developping this kind of software, it can (should ?) definitely be integrated into Inkscape in the future...

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Looks like there's something wrong with an image path. Do you use special characters (letters with accents...) in an xlink:href attributes?

> , it can (should ?) definitely be integrated into Inkscape in the future...

It is already in Inkscape 0.47, in File>Save As>Optimized SVG.

[Joel (joel-schaal)]

Aha ! That is it, probably. I admit I use paths with accents.

I never used another "Save as" option as the standard SVG, (and never looked
at the possibilities), so I haven't seen that. I also should have read the
scour documentation more thoroughly, because I saw that it is also written
there.

Sorry :)

(but thank you for the work nevertheless !)

2010/6/9 JazzyNico <email address hidden>

> Looks like there's something wrong with an image path. Do you use
> special characters (letters with accents...) in an xlink:href
> attributes?
>
> > , it can (should ?) definitely be integrated into Inkscape in the
> future...
>
> It is already in Inkscape 0.47, in File>Save As>Optimized SVG.
>
> --
> Ordinal not in range exception
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/591471
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[Louis Simard (louis-simard-deactivatedaccount)]

What is your file's XML declaration?

By that, I mean the <?xml ... ?> at the start of the file.

Perhaps it's UTF-8 and Scour doesn't handle it gracefully, or else it's ISO-8859-1 or ASCII so you can't have those characters in your SVG file.