Fetching Lenta.ru from python script

[johanp]

Hi,

I have a setup where I fetch news from a python script on my Linux server using cron. It works well apart from Lenta.ru for which the description string contains non-ascii characters. I get the "Failed to find builtin recipe: " error. I'm running Python 2.7.1. I copied the description string from the builtin_recipes.xml file. Script:

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os, subprocess, tempfile

os.environ['DISPLAY'] = ':1'

recipes = [u'Lenta.ru: �ово�ти' 'Dagens Nyheter', \
           'Svenska Dagbladet', 'BBC News', 'La Repubblica']

tmp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
out_file = tmp_dir + "/news.epub"

for recipe in recipes:
    subprocess.call(["ebook-convert", recipe + ".recipe", out_file])
    subprocess.call(["calibredb", "add", out_file])

os.remove(out_file)
os.removedirs(tmp_dir)

Any clue how to make this work?