Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: The problem is not only with the file.write(). If one of arguments is unicode (even if it doesn't contain non-ascii characters) and other argument is non-ascii string, we get this error.
>>> warnings.showwarning(u'', DeprecationWarning, 'filè.py', 10) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython-2.7/Lib/warnings.py", line 33, in _show_warning file.write(formatwarning(message, category, filename, lineno, line)) File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython-2.7/Lib/warnings.py", line 42, in formatwarning s = "%s:%s: %s: %s\n" % (filename, lineno, category.__name__, message) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) Non-ascii file names are rare, and unicode warnings are rare, that is why this bug was not fixed before. I think it is worth to fix. It is better to output modified warning (e.g. backslashescaped) than fail without clear diagnostic. ---------- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka resolution: not a bug -> stage: resolved -> status: closed -> open _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23637> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com