Release - Artist Slideshow addon (with skin and addon integration)

Code:

ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--

                                             - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!

                                            Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>

                                            Error Contents: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf3' in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)

                                            Traceback (most recent call last):

                                              File "/home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/script.artistslideshow-master/default.py", line 782, in <module>

                                                slideshow = Main()

                                              File "/home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/script.artistslideshow-master/default.py", line 133, in __init__

                                                self._use_correct_artwork()

                                              File "/home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/script.artistslideshow-master/default.py", line 170, in _use_correct_artwork

                                                log('current artist is %s' % artist.decode("utf-8"))

                                              File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode

                                                return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)

                                            UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf3' in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)

                                            -->End of Python script error report<--

21:46:07 T:139988924069760   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogKaiToast.xml) ------

21:46:07 T:139987452819200    INFO: Python script stopped

21:46:07 T:139987452819200   DEBUG: Thread XBPyThread 139987452819200 terminating

21:46:07 T:139988924069760   DEBUG: waiting for python thread 14 (/home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/script.artistslideshow-master/default.py) to stop

21:46:07 T:139988924069760   DEBUG: python thread 14 (/home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/script.artistslideshow-master/default.py) destructed

21:46:09 T:139987865556736   DEBUG: CRecentlyAddedJob::UpdateVideos() - Running RecentlyAdded home screen update

21:46:09 T:139987865556736   DEBUG: RunQuery took 163 ms for 10 items query: select * from movieview  ORDER BY dateAdded desc, idMovie desc LIMIT 10

21:46:09 T:139987865556736   DEBUG: RunQuery took 141 ms for 10 items query: select * from episodeview  ORDER BY dateAdded desc, idEpisode desc LIMIT 10

21:46:09 T:139987865556736   DEBUG: RunQuery took 28 ms for 10 items query: select * from musicvideoview  ORDER BY dateAdded desc, idMVideo desc LIMIT 10

21:46:09 T:139987865556736   DEBUG: CRecentlyAddedJob::UpdateTotal() - Running RecentlyAdded home screen update

21:46:12 T:139988924069760   DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (DialogKaiToast.xml) ------

21:46:19 T:139987479688960    INFO: CFileCache::Process - Hit eof.

21:46:37 T:139988924069760   DEBUG: SECTION:UnloadDelayed(DLL: special://xbmcbin/system/players/dvdplayer/avutil-51-x86_64-linux.so)

21:46:37 T:139988924069760   DEBUG: Unloading: avutil-51-x86_64-linux.so

21:46:37 T:139988924069760   DEBUG: SECTION:UnloadDelayed(DLL: special://xbmcbin/system/players/dvdplayer/swscale-2-x86_64-linux.so)

21:46:37 T:139988924069760   DEBUG: Unloading: swscale-2-x86_64-linux.so

21:46:37 T:139988784117504   DEBUG: JSONRPC: Incoming request: {"jsonrpc": "2.0",  "id": 1, "method": "VideoLibrary.GetMovies", "params": {"properties": ["title", "originaltitle", "playcount", "year", "genre", "studio", "country", "tagline", "plot", "runtime", "file", "plotoutline", "lastplayed", "trailer", "rating", "resume", "art", "streamdetails", "mpaa", "director"], "limits": {"end": 20}, "sort": {"method": "random" }, "filter": {"field": "playcount", "operator": "lessthan", "value": "1"}}}

21:46:37 T:139988784117504   DEBUG: JSONRPC: Calling videolibrary.getmovies

21:46:37 T:139988784117504   DEBUG: RunQuery took 141 ms for 1933 items query: select * from movieview  WHERE ((movieview.playCount IS NULL OR movieview.playCount < 1))

21:46:38 T:139988924069760   DEBUG: SECTION:UnloadDelayed(DLL: special://xbmcbin/system/ImageLib-x86_64-linux.so)

21:46:38 T:139988924069760   DEBUG: Unloading: ImageLib-x86_64-linux.so

21:46:38 T:139987865556736   DEBUG: Caching image '/home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/script.artworkorganizer/ArtistFanart/The Abyssinians.jpg' to '8/8b128ff4.jpg':

21:46:38 T:139987865556736   DEBUG: cached image 'special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/8/8b128ff4.jpg' size 1280x720

Code:

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# properly unquote text coming back from e.g. LMS



def unquoteUni(text):



    try:

        import urllib.parse

        return urllib.parse.unquote(text, encoding=self.charset)

    except ImportError:

        #import urllib

        #return urllib.unquote(text)

        _hexdig = '0123456789ABCDEFabcdef'

        _hextochr = dict((a+b, chr(int(a+b,16))) for a in _hexdig for b in _hexdig)

        if isinstance(text, unicode):

            text = text.encode('utf-8')

        res = text.split('%')

        for i in xrange(1, len(res)):

            item = res[i]

            try:

                res[i] = _hextochr[item[:2]] + item[2:]

            except KeyError:

                res[i] = '%' + item

            except UnicodeDecodeError:

                res[i] = unichr(int(item[:2], 16)) + item[2:]

        return "".join(res)