2020-05-10, 04:06
Hello,
attn: Roman_V_M
I found your tutorial very informative and useful. In tutorial you refer that data can be obtained by other means and I want go this route. But so far my attempt are not successful.
I want to read a file from local storage space and tried following code
```Python
import json
import codecs
fname = 'c:/temp/iptv/video_data.json'
with open(fname, encoding='utf-8') as f:
data = f.read()
VIDEO = json.loads(data)
```
The code produces an error in log file that open does not have encoding
I've attempted following approach
```Python
import json
import codecs
fname = 'c:/temp/iptv/video_data.json'
with open(fname, 'rb') as f:
bytes = f.read()
data = bytes.decode('utf-8')
VIDEOS = json.loads(data)
```
The code produces an error 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1-4: ordinal not in range(128)'.
I've looked for information about how I can read utf-8 encoded JSON file in KODI without success so far.
I see that KODI has python27.dll library and my guess it that first error is related to older version of python in some way.
Second code snippet works fine with python 3.8.2 outside of Kodi and I am confused with the error and at loss what causes it.
Ideally I would like to retrieve some data from DataBase through php,python,ruby code on webserver (and I can do it at this moment) form a JSON string which will be served by webserver to KODI plugin.video.example to process further.
Following code in which I attempted to capture utf-8 encode JSON file also produces an error
```Python
url = 'http://iptv.some_server.com/series.json'
html = client.request(url)
VIDEO = html.content
xbmc.log(VIDEO[0:10], xbmc.LOGNOTICE)
```
A ticket was created on Stackoverflow in hope to obtain required information to described issue.
Your guidance will be greatly appreciated, I do not mind to read some documentation related to this subject as at this moment I have very limited understanding about Kodi's internals of API.
Thank you in advance for your effort and time
attn: Roman_V_M
I found your tutorial very informative and useful. In tutorial you refer that data can be obtained by other means and I want go this route. But so far my attempt are not successful.
I want to read a file from local storage space and tried following code
```Python
import json
import codecs
fname = 'c:/temp/iptv/video_data.json'
with open(fname, encoding='utf-8') as f:
data = f.read()
VIDEO = json.loads(data)
```
The code produces an error in log file that open does not have encoding
I've attempted following approach
```Python
import json
import codecs
fname = 'c:/temp/iptv/video_data.json'
with open(fname, 'rb') as f:
bytes = f.read()
data = bytes.decode('utf-8')
VIDEOS = json.loads(data)
```
The code produces an error 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1-4: ordinal not in range(128)'.
I've looked for information about how I can read utf-8 encoded JSON file in KODI without success so far.
I see that KODI has python27.dll library and my guess it that first error is related to older version of python in some way.
Second code snippet works fine with python 3.8.2 outside of Kodi and I am confused with the error and at loss what causes it.
Ideally I would like to retrieve some data from DataBase through php,python,ruby code on webserver (and I can do it at this moment) form a JSON string which will be served by webserver to KODI plugin.video.example to process further.
Following code in which I attempted to capture utf-8 encode JSON file also produces an error
```Python
url = 'http://iptv.some_server.com/series.json'
html = client.request(url)
VIDEO = html.content
xbmc.log(VIDEO[0:10], xbmc.LOGNOTICE)
```
A ticket was created on Stackoverflow in hope to obtain required information to described issue.
Your guidance will be greatly appreciated, I do not mind to read some documentation related to this subject as at this moment I have very limited understanding about Kodi's internals of API.
Thank you in advance for your effort and time
