I have non-ascii characters in my long description (as I just fixed a bug in
my package that had to do with non-ascii characters). I did all the right
things like opening my changelog and readme with "codecs.open(...,
encoding='utf-8')" and so. But I ran into the following setuptools problem:
When calling "python setup.py --long-description", setuptools effectively does
a "print long_description", which works with a utf8 string, but fails with a
unicode string.
When uploading to pypi, setuptools calls unicode() on my long description,
which fails with a utf8 string and works with a unicode string.
So if I do long_description=my_unicode_string, --long-description fails and if
I do long_description=my_unicode_string.encode('utf-8') the pypi upload
fails.
In the end I used the dirty UltraMagicString() hack from
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1162338/whats-the-right-way-to-use-unicode-metadata-in-setup-py
Any suggestions?
Reinout
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