API client can't handle 'ascii' codec.

[axelabs]

I've created a monitor that has a '½' in its name. When calling api.Monitor.unmute on it's ID when the state is already not muted, I get the following errors:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 62, in <module>
  File "/your_mums_venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/datadog/api/monitors.py", line 88, in unmute
    return super(Monitor, cls)._trigger_class_action('POST', 'unmute', id, **params)
  File "/your_mums_venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/datadog/api/resources.py", line 193, in _trigger_class_action
    return APIClient.submit(method, cls._class_url + "/" + str(id) + "/" + name, params)
  File "/your_mums_venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/datadog/api/api_client.py", line 173, in submit
    log.error(str(error))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xbd' in position 74: ordinal not in range(128)

Tested with python 2.7.5 and datadog==0.16.0.

[Tyler-Churchill]

Encountered this as well.
Stripe had a hiccup and gave back "APIError(u"There was an unexpected error processing this request\u2013we've been notified of this issue. We'll update our status page at https://status.stripe.com/ with more information if we're seeing systemic issues.",)"

Which caused UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 2812: ordinal not in range(128)

[skyzyx]

I solve this by adding # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- to the top of my Python files.

Example: https://github.com/skyzyx/yml2json/blob/master/yml2json/__init__.py#L2

[yannmh]

Fixed with #346

[synth]

This issue occurs for me with dogwrap v0.28.0

Since the fix above is just in dogapi...could the same issue be present in dogshell/dogwrap?

This is actually a huge issue for us. We use dogwrap to wrap cron jobs but for some reason its crashing our cron process which could be (and is) in the middle of a database transaction. This failure causes the transaction to be left open causing catastrophic failure/waiting on our other processes that wait for the transaction to finish.

[synth]

@yannmh I can reliably reproduce this whenever there is unicode character in my output from the process wrapped by dogwrap

[synth]

Created test case and more detail in #371 :)

[yannmh]

Thank you @synth we are looking at the issue.