Re: [Python-Dev] UnicodeDecodeError bug in distutils
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au writes: Phillip J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com writes: Meanwhile, the 'register' command accepts Unicode, but is broken in handling it. […] 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. What is the prognosis on this issue? It's still hitting me in Python 2.5.4. Any word on this? Is there an open bug tracker issue with more information? Who's working on this? -- \ “If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly | `\ owned if it is not shared.” —Saint Augustine | _o__) | Ben Finney ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Python-Dev] UnicodeDecodeError bug in distutils
Meanwhile, the 'register' command accepts Unicode, but is broken in handling it. […] 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. What is the prognosis on this issue? It's still hitting me in Python 2.5.4. Any word on this? Is there an open bug tracker issue with more information? Who's working on this? For Python 2.5.4, no further changes will be made. If you can reproduce with 2.6, and can't find a tracker issue, make a new report. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Python-Dev] UnicodeDecodeError bug in distutils
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au writes: Is there an open bug tracker issue with more information? Answer: URL:http://bugs.python.org/issue2562. Apparently the issue is resolved URL:http://bugs.python.org/msg72385 for Python 2.6. I will need to wait for my distribution to catch up before I can know whether it's resolved. -- \“The World is not dangerous because of those who do harm but | `\ because of those who look at it without doing anything.” | _o__) —Albert Einstein | Ben Finney ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Python-Dev] UnicodeDecodeError bug in distutils
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Phillip J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com writes: However, there's currently no standard, as far as I know, for what encoding the PKG-INFO file should use. Who would define such a standard? PEP 376 where we can explain that all files in egg-info should be in a specific encoding My vote goes for “default is UTF-8”. +1 Meanwhile, the 'register' command accepts Unicode, but is broken in handling it. […] how so ? Tarek ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Python-Dev] UnicodeDecodeError bug in distutils
Phillip J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com writes: However, there's currently no standard, as far as I know, for what encoding the PKG-INFO file should use. Who would define such a standard? My vote goes for “default is UTF-8”. Meanwhile, the 'register' command accepts Unicode, but is broken in handling it. […] 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. What is the prognosis on this issue? It's still hitting me in Python 2.5.4. -- \ “Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except | `\for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand | _o__) knowledge.” —Erwin Knoll | Ben Finney ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
