In the output of test_distutils with python 3.2 (current version checkout): ====================================================================== ERROR: test_prune_file_list (distutils.tests.test_sdist.SDistTestCase) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/ronald/Projects/python/python-3.x/Lib/distutils/tests/test_sdist.py", line 131, in test_prune_file_list zip_file = zipfile.ZipFile(join(dist_folder, 'fake-1.0.zip')) File "/Users/ronald/Projects/python/python-3.x/Lib/zipfile.py", line 684, in __init__ self._GetContents() File "/Users/ronald/Projects/python/python-3.x/Lib/zipfile.py", line 710, in _GetContents self._RealGetContents() File "/Users/ronald/Projects/python/python-3.x/Lib/zipfile.py", line 758, in _RealGetContents filename = filename.decode('cp437') LookupError: unknown encoding: cp437
Author: Alexander Belopolsky (Alexander.Belopolsky)
Date: 2010-04-29 14:09
I cannot reproduce this behavior on my MacBook running OSX 10.6.2. $ ./python.exe Lib/test/test_distutils.py ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 168 tests in 3.850s OK (skipped=4) Also, cp437 appears to be a valid encoding: Python 3.2a0 (py3k:80615M, Apr 29 2010, 10:00:45) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646) (dot 1)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> b"".decode('cp437') '' >>> b"abcde".decode('cp437') 'abcde'
There were some other build problems at the time, I haven't verified yet if the fixes for those problems also fixed this issue. I will do so over the weekend.
