@automeme woes

aaaaaaargh

From: Cron Daemon
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:15:04 +0100 (IST)                                                                                                                                   
To: inky
Subject: Cron <inky> /home/inky/cron/automeme/twittermeme.py --cron >/dev/null
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/inky/cron/automeme/twittermeme.py", line 102, in ?
    main()
  File "/home/inky/cron/automeme/twittermeme.py", line 91, in main
    post()
  File "/home/inky/cron/automeme/twittermeme.py", line 82, in post
    print status.text
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2026' in position 82: ordinal not in range(128)

fix.py

def to_unicode_or_bust(obj, encoding='utf-8'):
    """
    http://farmdev.com/talks/unicode/
    """
    if isinstance(obj, basestring):
        if not isinstance(obj, unicode):
            obj = unicode(obj, encoding)
    return obj