At 02:47 PM 2/24/2007 -0600, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
I have created a setup.py file for distirbution and I bumped into
a small bug when i tried to set my name in the contact field (Tarek Ziadé)
Using string (utf8 file):
setup(
maintainer=Tarek Ziadé
)
leads to:
File .../lib/python2.5/distutils/command/register.py, line 162, in
send_metadata
auth)
File .../lib/python2.5/distutils/command/register.py, line 257, in
post_to_server
value = unicode(value).encode(utf-8)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 10:
ordinal not in range(128)
Using unicode:
setup(
maintainer=uTarek Ziadé
)
leads to:
File .../lib/python2.5/distutils/dist.py, line 1094, in write_pkg_file
file.write('Author: %s\n' % self.get_contact() )
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in
position 18: ordinal not in range(128)
I would propose a patch for this problem but i don't know what would be
the best input (i guess unicode
for names)
At 05:45 PM 2/24/2007 -0500, Tres Seaver wrote:
Don't you still need to tell Python about the encoding of your string
literals [1] [2] ? E.g.::
That's not the problem, it's that the code that writes the PKG-INFO file
doesn't handle Unicode. See
distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.write_pkg_info(). It needs to use a
file with encoding support, if it's doing unicode
However, there's currently no standard, as far as I know, for what encoding
the PKG-INFO file should use. Meanwhile, the 'register' command accepts
Unicode, but is broken in handling it.
Essentially, the problem is that Python 2.5 broke this by adding a unicode
*requirement* to the register command. Previously, register simply sent
whatever you gave it, and the PKG-INFO writing code still
does. Unfortunately, this means that there is no longer any one value that
you can use for your name that will be accepted by both register and
anything that writes a PKG-INFO file.
Both register and write_pkg_info() are arguably broken here, and should be
able to work with either strings or unicode, and degrade gracefully in the
event of non-ASCII characters in a string. (Because even though register
is only run by the package's author, users may run other commands that
require a PKG-INFO, so a package prepared using Python 2.5 must still be
usable with Python 2.5 distutils, and Python 2.5 allows 8-bit maintainer
names.)
Unfortunately, this isn't fixable until there's a new 2.5.x release. For
previous Python versions, both register and write_pkg_info() accepted 8-bit
strings and passed them on as-is, so the only workaround for this issue at
the moment is to revert to Python 2.4 or less.
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