UnicodeEncodeError occuring in 3.0.4 but not 2.9.2? about pymarc HOT 4 CLOSED

This seems to only affect Python 2; I can print this file from Python 3 fine (well, except on Windows, where it can't print because of the combining diacritic in question not being in cp-1252...)

When loading from a file, instead of with zoom, I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "unicodetest.py", line 6, in
print(record)
File "/private/tmp/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pymarc/record.py", line 84, in str
text_list.extend([str(field) for field in self.fields])
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0301' in position 1025: ordinal not in range(128)

(note, my error mentions the codepoint for the combining diacritic; OP's is for composed é instead -- not sure why this would differ, unless the Z39.50 endpoint has a different record than what LoC gives me to download).

I assume the use of 1-argument str() on a unicode is to blame here. In any event calling str() directly in a codebase that runs on 2 and 3 is a code smell; should be using six.text_type probably.

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Interesting. I had not tried replicating the problem or running the test script with Python 3. Unfortunately, I need to stay with Python 2.7.x, for now, but it's good to know that moving to Python 3 might remedy a few issues. Thanks Wooble.

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I applied the changes from the diff and am no longer experiencing the error. Thanks for your help, Wooble. Much appreciated.

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This was just released as part of v3.1.4. Thanks for identifying the problem and fixing it!

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