Tutorial fails if PDF filename contains non-ascii characters

[flavioamieiro]

This was added as NAMD/pypln.web#93 but it really belongs to this repository. Bellow is the original text.

Sending Cancré et al._2000.pdf...

UnicodeDecodeError Traceback (most recent call last)
in ()
4 files={'blob':fp}
5 resp = requests.post('http://demo.pypln.org/documents/', data=data,
----> 6 files=files, auth=credentials)
7 print(resp.status_code)
8

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/api.pyc in post(url, data, **kwargs)
86 """
87
---> 88 return request('post', url, data=data, **kwargs)
89
90

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/api.pyc in request(method, url, **kwargs)
42
43 session = sessions.Session()
---> 44 return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
45
46

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.pyc in request(self, method, url, params, data, headers, cookies, files, auth, timeout, allow_redirects, proxies, hooks, stream, verify, cert)
322
323 # Prepare the Request.
--> 324 prep = req.prepare()
325
326 # Send the request.

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/models.pyc in prepare(self)
223 p.prepare_headers(self.headers)
224 p.prepare_cookies(self.cookies)
--> 225 p.prepare_body(self.data, self.files)
226 p.prepare_auth(self.auth, self.url)
227 # Note that prepare_auth must be last to enable authentication schemes

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/models.pyc in prepare_body(self, data, files)
383 # Multi-part file uploads.
384 if files:
--> 385 (body, content_type) = self._encode_files(files, data)
386 else:
387 if data:

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/models.pyc in _encode_files(files, data)
131 new_fields.append((k, new_v))
132
--> 133 body, content_type = encode_multipart_formdata(new_fields)
134
135 return body, content_type

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/filepost.pyc in encode_multipart_formdata(fields, boundary)
73 content_type = get_content_type(filename)
74 writer(body).write('Content-Disposition: form-data; name="%s"; '
---> 75 'filename="%s"\r\n' % (fieldname, filename))
76 body.write(b('Content-Type: %s\r\n\r\n' %
77 (content_type,)))

/usr/lib/python2.7/codecs.pyc in write(self, object)
349 """ Writes the object's contents encoded to self.stream.
350 """
--> 351 data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
352 self.stream.write(data)
353

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 60: ordinal not in range(128)