Key_Error using Black Pearl python_sdk_ds3

[Mark Suhovecky]

I have a python script that uses the old 2.7 python_sdk_ds3 to copy local files in bulk to the black pearl. Most of the time it works fine. Sometimes, however, I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./ds3cp", line 164, in <module>
    UploadInBulk(uploadList)
  File "./ds3cp", line 110, in UploadInBulk
    job=bulkResult.result['JobId']))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ds3/ds3.py", line 11319, in put_object
    return PutObjectResponse(self.net_client.get_response(request), request)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ds3/ds3network.py", line 168, in get_response
    response = self.send_request(request)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ds3/ds3network.py", line 192, in send_request
    path = self.build_path(request.path, request.query_params)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ds3/ds3network.py", line 295, in build_path
    new_path = self.normalize_string(resource) + '?'
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ds3/ds3network.py", line 290, in normalize_string
    return urllib.quote(url)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib.py", line 1283, in quote
    return ''.join(map(quoter, s))
KeyError: u'\xa0'

My keys include file pathnames that sometimes contain unicode. I'm guessing that this problem has to do with the unicode <-> utf-8 ambiguities in python 2.

I am considering rewriting the script w/ the Python 3 SDK, but I first wanted to see if anyone else had encountered this error using the python 2.7 toolkit, and how they dealt with it.

Thanks,

Mark

[jeffbr]

Hi Mark, Spectra Logic is not aware of anyone else having this problem, but it may just be because they didn't have unicode characters. Thanks, Jeff