UnicodeEncodeError while trying to test the script

[brokenwu]

Hello,

since i moved my Plex to another machine I wanted to give this a shot. However I get this result after trying to run it:
Got Plex libraries: {"/path": 1, "/path2": 2, "/path3": 3} Adding directories to inotify watch Traceback (most recent call last): File "./plex-inotify.py", line 214, in <module> auto_add=True File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pyinotify.py", line 1916, in add_watch exclude_filter) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pyinotify.py", line 1833, in __add_watch wd = self._inotify_wrapper.inotify_add_watch(self._fd, path, mask) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pyinotify.py", line 153, in inotify_add_watch return self._inotify_add_watch(fd, pathname, mask) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pyinotify.py", line 246, in _inotify_add_watch pathname = pathname.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding()) UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udcfc' in position 65: surrogates not allowed

Do you have any idea on how to fix this?

[roquint]

if you're running the script directly from the Synology Task Scheduler (eg : as a triggered event on startup), you should export some variables in order to make python3 work with the correct encoding, in your Task Scheduler userscript must be like this :

export PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
/volume1/@appstore/py3k/usr/local/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/plex-inotify.py

[talisto]

Thanks for the tip, @luckypaste!

It seems that this is actually an issue with pyinotify (which is a library that plex-inotifier uses), and not with plex-inotifier itself. There's an open issue on the pyinotify tracker here:

seb-m/pyinotify#183

There's no "official" way for me to set the encoding to UTF8 in my script (aside from unsupported/hacky methods). The environment variable is the way to go, so I'm going to close this issue.