[ python-Bugs-1498146 ] optparse does not hande unicode help strings (original) (raw)

Bugs item #1498146, was opened at 2006-05-31 07:52 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by gward You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1498146&group_id=5470

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Status: Closed Resolution: Fixed Priority: 5 Submitted By: Tom Cato Amundsen (tomcato) Assigned to: Greg Ward (gward) Summary: optparse does not hande unicode help strings

Initial Comment: Unicode strings with non-ascii chars in generate a UnicodeEncodeError

File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 1370, in print_help file.write(self.format_help()) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 200-202: +ordinal not in range(128)

I'm subclassing OptionParser and adds the following method to get it to work. Should something like this be done for python 2.5?

def print_help(self, file=None): if file is None: file = sys.stdout file.write(self.format_help().encode(file.encoding, 'replace'))

Tom Cato

Comment By: Greg Ward (gward) Date: 2006-06-11 12:25

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Fixed pretty much as suggested in upstream Optik repository: r520.

(However, I had to use getattr(file, 'encoding', sys.getdefaultencoding()) to maintain compatibility with Python 2.0 .. 2.2).

No doc changes, since help generation isn't really documented all that well anywhere. ;-(

Fixed on Python trunk: r46861.

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