[Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack (stage 3) (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Sat Oct 27 16:23:08 CEST 2007


Guido van Rossum wrote:

There are also some issues that mainly crop up in non-English locales. We will try to get to the bottom of those before releasing 3.0a2, but I need help as I'm myself absolutely unable to work with locales (and I don't have access to a Windows box). I think Christian and a few others are making progress here.

I've hit another wall of bricks on Windows. It's not possible to run Python from a directory with non ASCII characters: http://bugs.python.org/issue1342. I've a patch that reduces the problem from a segfault to an unrecoverable import error. The remaining problem seems to lay deep in PC/getpathp.c:Py_GetPath(). It seems that it can't handle non ASCII chars correctly.

The second line is a fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", char *path). Do you see the difference between "testäöü" and "testõ÷³"?

c:\testäöü\PCBuild8\win32release>python c:\testõ÷³\PCBuild8\win32release\python30.zip;c:\testõ÷³\DLLs;c:
testõ÷³\lib;c:\testõ÷³\lib\plat-win;c:\testõ÷³\lib\lib-tk;c:\testõ÷³\PCBuild8\wi n32release Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams object : ImportError('No module named encodings.utf_8',) type : ImportError refcount: 4 address : 00A43540 lost sys.stderr

Christian



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