Index out of Range.

Hi I’m writing a script to parse an rSS feed and show the news on the display but randomly I am getting the following error message and I don’t know what can be the cause, I’m using spanish RSS feeds, maybe a character is out of the 256 ascii chars that are in the font file? How can I solve? Thank you.

 File "rss-feed.py", line 53, in main
    show_message(device, msg, fill="white", font=proportional(SINCLAIR_FONT))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/luma/core/legacy/__init__.py", line 77, in show_message
    w, h = textsize(msg, font)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/luma/core/legacy/__init__.py", line 29, in textsize
    src = [c for ascii_code in txt for c in font[ord(ascii_code)]]
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/luma/core/legacy/font.py", line 21, in __getitem__
    bitmap = self.font[asciiCode]
IndexError: list index out of range

[jboyoli]

Thanks for the fast reply. It appears randomly on other feeds but I found that this one specifically produces the error just after printing fine the phrase: “Siempre es más fácil obtener perdón que permiso” the accented a prints as blank using the font LCD and that is fine as I still have to edit the bytes to add the character to the font. http://www.bbc.com/mundo/temas/cultura/index.xml I’m using feed parser wich prints fine on the monitor but when trying to display it on the matrix it fails.

This is another one that produces the same error but not always as this is updated every 20 mins I think. http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/rss.xml

Thanks for looking in to it, much appreciated.

[jboyoli]

I tested the tolerant class today and it worked fine. My Rss feeds are being displayed complete now. I will add some bitmap definitions to the fonts I want to use to the accented characters. Thanks again for your time.