[wxPython-users] Mystery: wx.grid, a filter function, and Unicode

[Robin Dunn]

Bob Klahn wrote:

> I'm using the above function inside a wx.grid cell renderer:
> 
>         class CellRenderer(gridlib.PyGridCellRenderer):
>              def __init__(self):
>                  gridlib.PyGridCellRenderer.__init__(self)
>                  self.filter = utils.makefilter('{}\x08\x0C',delete=True)
>                                               
> The problem:  When the cell renderer executes and the filter is invoked 
> (e.g., as self.filter(word) ), it fails on the
>         return s.translate(allchars, delchars)
> line in makefilter:
>     TypeError: translate() takes exactly one argument (2 given)
> 
> I.e, Python thinks that string s is a Unicode string.  But I'm not using 
> Unicode strings anywhere!  Any ideas where wxPython might be changing my 
> plain strings into Unicode strings?  I'm not able to provide a simple 
> code example.
> 
> Filters generated by makefilter work perfectly outside of my wxPython 
> application.

Where does word come from?  Have you checked it's type? 
http://wiki.wxpython.org/UnicodeBuild


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