[issue32826] idle test fails at least on the 3.6 branch

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Serhiy, thanks for comment and review. Cheryl, #32837 expands upon your comment. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue32826] idle test fails at least on the 3.6 branch

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 46daf39453023767eef3b6876d4a34996e124397 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.6': bpo-32826: Add "encoding=utf-8" to open() in idle_test/test_help_about. (GH-5639)

[issue32826] idle test fails at least on the 3.6 branch

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 38b4dd7f83fbdce6fe970088cd89b80f074a13f6 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-32826: Add "encoding=utf-8" to open() in idle_test/test_help_about. (GH-5639)

[issue32826] idle test fails at least on the 3.6 branch

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +5443 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue32826] idle test fails at least on the 3.6 branch

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +5442 stage: commit review -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___

[issue32826] idle test fails at least on the 3.6 branch

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: New changeset f34e03ec0ea6a4cef8d966087c77e616c4a5893b by Terry Jan Reedy in branch 'master': bpo-32826: Add "encoding=utf-8" to open() in idle_test/test_help_about. (GH-5639)

[issue32826] idle test fails at least on the 3.6 branch

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I reproduced the exact failure by temporarily replacing 'utf-8' with 'ascii' in my clone. So I don't need anyone else to verify the fix. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue32826] idle test fails at least on the 3.6 branch

Cheryl Sabella added the comment: I've been able to run the IDLE test suite on Linux. As far as this issue, there's also a readline in test_textview that you may want to add the encoding to, even though it's only reading __file__. --

[issue32826] idle test fails at least on the 3.6 branch

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I just discovered that the default for me is some version of latin1, not ascii, so that utf-8 'ö' is read as 'ö'. Hence, no UnicodeDecodeError even if 'ö' is being read and decoded by the initial readline call. I presume the same is true

[issue32826] idle test fails at least on the 3.6 branch

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +5439 stage: needs patch -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___

[issue32826] idle test fails at least on the 3.6 branch

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: The failure is reproduced on Posix locale. Files are open with bare open() which uses the locale encoding by default. Which is ASCII in this case. -- components: +Tests keywords: +easy nosy: +serhiy.storchaka

[issue32826] idle test fails at least on the 3.6 branch

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: What system? test_idle passes on Windows. Unfortunately, none of the *nix or Mac buildbots run tkinter and hence no tests that require a live tk window, and this one does. Cheryl, what do you see on your linux? Byte 0xc3 in position 1540

[issue32826] idle test fails at least on the 3.6 branch

New submission from Matthias Klose : seen with the 3.6 branch 20180212, last known succeeding test is the 3.6.4 release. test test_idle failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/packages/python/3.6/python3.6-3.6.4/Lib/idlelib/idle_test/test_help_about.py",