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Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/1370/
Reported by: valhallasw
Created on: 2011-10-26 20:35:33
Subject: Using non-ascii file path causes UnicodeDecodeError
Original description:
\[user@denix eskarcha\]$ python2 login.py
unicode test: triggers problem \#3081100
Password for user Eskarcha on chakra:en: 
Logging in to chakra:en as Eskarcha via API.
Traceback \(most recent call last\):
File "login.py", line 436, in <module>
main\(\)
File "login.py", line 432, in main
loginMan.login\(\)
File "login.py", line 319, in login
cookiedata = self.getCookie\(api\)
File "login.py", line 243, in getCookie
self.site.updateCookies\(L, self.sysop\)
File "/home/user/proxectos/chakra/documentación/eskarcha/wikipedia.py", line 5193, in updateCookies
self.\_setupCookies\(self.\_cookies\[index\], sysop\)
File "/home/user/proxectos/chakra/documentación/eskarcha/wikipedia.py", line 5164, in \_setupCookies
f = open\(config.datafilepath\('login-data', filename\), 'w'\)
File "/home/user/proxectos/chakra/documentación/eskarcha/config.py", line 505, in datafilepath
return makepath\(os.path.join\(base\_dir, \*filename\)\)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 71, in join
path += '/' + b
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 39: ordinal not in range\(128\)

\[user@denix eskarcha\]$ python2 version.py
Pywikipedia \[http\] trunk/pywikipedia \(r9675, 2011/10/26, 08:57:14\)
Python 2.7.1 \(r271:86832, Jul 24 2011, 00:49:56\) 
\[GCC 4.5.3\]
config-settings:
use\_api = True
use\_api\_login = True
unicode test: triggers problem \#3081100

Moving the pywikipediabot directory to an ascii path works as workaround.