[ckan-dev] problem with import of latin character

[David Read]

2011/5/26  <p.romain at cg33.fr>:
>
> Hi,
>
> We wrote a script for the bulk import of our catalogues of data packages but

Your script looks basically fine.

> we can't import data with latin characters. Is there something to set in the
> python script that we are missing (encoding or something..)

The importer should support latin chacters fine. We have a test for
this. You could try importing our test spreadsheet using your script
and see if that works ok.

http://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckanext-importlib/src/default/ckanext/importlib/tests/
See samples directory and compare test_importer_full.xls and
test_importer_full.csv which are the same data in the two different
formats.

Excel files are unicode, and that's what we use internally too:
https://secure.simplistix.co.uk/svn/xlrd/trunk/xlrd/doc/xlrd.html

It might help us to see the exception too.

David

> Here is the script
>
> import types
> import tempfile
> import os
>
> from sqlalchemy.util import OrderedDict
> from pylons import config
>
> from ckanclient import CkanClient, CkanApiError
> import ckan.model as model
> from ckanext.importlib import importer
> from ckanext.importlib import loader
> from ckanext.importlib import spreadsheet_importer
> from ckanext.importlib.spreadsheet_importer import readonly_keys
>
> IMPORT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
> filepath = os.path.join(IMPORT_DIR, 'data') + '/cg33_import_data.xls'
>
> base_location = 'http://ckanserver:5010/api'
> ckanclient = CkanClient(
>             base_location=base_location,
>             api_key='0eef0148-8534-48ed-bbd7-23ce3d7a5314',
>             is_verbose=True,
>         )
> reader = spreadsheet_importer.SpreadsheetPackageImporter(buf=None,
> filepath=filepath)
> loader = loader.ReplaceByNameLoader(ckanclient)
> print loader.load_packages(reader.pkg_dict())
>
>
>
> Pascal
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