[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1483: str(NoSuchChildError(nonascii)) raises an exception, causing the actual name to be lost in tracebacks

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#1483: str(NoSuchChildError(nonascii)) raises an exception, causing the actual
name to be lost in tracebacks
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 Reporter:  davidsarah  |          Owner:  davidsarah
     Type:  defect      |         Status:  new
 Priority:  major       |      Milestone:  1.10.0
Component:  code        |        Version:  1.8.2
 Keywords:  error       |  Launchpad Bug:
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 {{{
 C:\tahoe\furry>bin\tahoe debug repl
 Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Nov 27 2010, 18:30:46) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
 (Intel)] on win32
 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 (InteractiveConsole)
 >>> from allmydata.interfaces import NoSuchChildError
 >>> str(NoSuchChildError(u'\u2621'))
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
 UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2621' in
 position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
 }}}

 Despite this, Twisted trial usually manages to print tracebacks in unit
 test errors successfully. However it still causes ugliness and loss of
 information, for example:
 {{{
 [ERROR]
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "c:\tahoe\furry\src\allmydata\dirnode.py", line 444, in _get
     raise NoSuchChildError(name)
 allmydata.interfaces.NoSuchChildError: <NoSuchChildError instance at
 0x226b558 with str error:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-
 packages\twisted-10.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\twisted\python\reflect.py", line
 546, in _safeFormat
     return formatter(o)
 UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf8' in
 position 1: ordinal not in range
 (128)
 >
 }}}

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