TargetingIdeaService, UnicodeDecodeError problem

[mohamad reza moohebat]

Hello,

I am trying to extract the keyword idea through TargetingIdeaService by Python. For ascii words I do not have any problem but, whenever I send a unicode character to the API, below error will come up. Do you have any idea what's wrong? thanks

File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\googleads\common.py", line 296, in MakeSoapRequest
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\client.py", line 521, in __call__
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\client.py", line 576, in invoke
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\bindings\binding.py", line 109, in get_message
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\bindings\document.py", line 95, in bodycontent
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\argparser.py", line 83, in parse_args
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\argparser.py", line 108, in __call__
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\argparser.py", line 299, in __process_parameters
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\argparser.py", line 294, in __process_parameter
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\bindings\document.py", line 86, in add_param
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\bindings\document.py", line 130, in mkparam
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\bindings\binding.py", line 225, in mkparam
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\core.py", line 59, in process
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\core.py", line 72, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\appender.py", line 88, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\appender.py", line 229, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\appender.py", line 168, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\core.py", line 72, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\appender.py", line 88, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\appender.py", line 284, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\appender.py", line 168, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\core.py", line 72, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\appender.py", line 88, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\appender.py", line 229, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\appender.py", line 168, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\core.py", line 72, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\appender.py", line 88, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\appender.py", line 284, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\appender.py", line 168, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\core.py", line 72, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\appender.py", line 88, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\appender.py", line 284, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\appender.py", line 168, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\core.py", line 72, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\appender.py", line 88, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\mx\appender.py", line 184, in append
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\sax\element.py", line 239, in setText
  File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\suds\sax\text.py", line 43, in __new__
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)

[Umesh Dengale]

Hello,

This appears to be an issue with how suds handles unicode in Python 2. That said, it's pretty easy to work around this--all you have to do is send unicode content in a unicode string rather than encoding it.

In your case, that particular character can be represented as u'\u0905'. Alternatively, you can change your default encoding as seen in PEP 0263 and use those characters directly.

Thanks,

Umesh, AdWords API Team.