loading ods with Chinese characters fails with Python 2.7

[ghost]

it works however with Python 3.4

see the two attachments test01.py and test1.ods at this Debian bug report:

https://bugs.debian.org/783789

it used to work before the Python 3 changes

[ghost]

This helps, but maybe it is not the correct fix:

--- a/odf/attrconverters.py
+++ b/odf/attrconverters.py
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
 def __save_prefix(attribute, arg, element):
     prefix = arg.split(':',1)[0]
     if prefix == arg:
-        return str(arg)
+        return arg
     namespace = element.get_knownns(prefix)
     if namespace is None:
         #raise ValueError( "'%s' is an unknown prefix" % str(prefix))

[fisxoj]

I'm encountering this as well. Was there a reason to cast the return value to a string instead of unicode? (3f9eeff#diff-752a348151632fef555f0894ed7fffeeL104)

[markplindsay]

@fisxoj it looks like this WAS fixed in d6d37d0, but it hasn't made it into PyPI yet.

PyPI has 1.3.1 (2015-07-18) and the fix was committed 2015-08-01.

[fisxoj]

@sorenroug It looks like you were our savior last time around. Do you think a new release to PyPi might be possible?

[sorenroug]

Yes, the fix was committed in August, but it didn't work on both Python 2 and 3. I've done some investigation and closed the issue. There is a new release on PyPi.

[fisxoj]

Thanks, @sorenroug!