Authentication and MD5 with non-ASCII characters

[hugovk]

From claud...@gmail.com on October 19, 2008 19:27:42

Please type example code that produces the issue: user = User('Zazhigalo4ka', API_KEY, API_SECRET, SESSION_KEY)
p = user.getPlaylistIDs()
pid = p[0]
playlist = Playlist('lastfm://playlist/%s' % pid, API_KEY, API_SECRET, SESSION_KEY)
tracks = playlist.fetch()
t1 = tracks[1]
t1.getTitle()
t1.getTags() What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I expect the title (which is printed) and the tags (which are not printed). The following error is
reported:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/
pylast.py", line 514, in getTags
doc = Request(self, self.ws_prefix + '.getTags', self.api_key, params, True, self.secret).execute
()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/
pylast.py", line 285, in execute
self.params['api_sig'] = self._getSignature()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/
pylast.py", line 275, in _getSignature
hash.update(string)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 52-54: ordinal not in range
(128) What version of pyLast is this? pyLast-0.2b13 Please provide any additional information below. This happens both with Python 2.5 and Python 2.6, and I guess the problem is related to the
creation of the MD5 hash with a track that contains non-ASCII characters. The last.fm page http://www.last.fm/api/authspec reminds to "Ensure your parameters are utf8 encoded.", so the
problem might be there.

(Thanks again for this package, by the way!!)

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/pylast/issues/detail?id=7

[hugovk]

From amr.has...@gmail.com on October 19, 2008 15:51:01

Fixed in 0.2.14, available in svn.
Check out the new UserPlaylist class as well.

Thank you for taking the time to report this.

Status: Fixed