[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-476326 ] Unicode and imp.find_module (original) (raw)

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Bugs item #476326, was opened at 2001-10-30 03:25 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=476326&group_id=5470

Category: Python Interpreter Core Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Paul Boddie (pboddie) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Unicode and imp.find_module

Initial Comment: When a Unicode string is passed as the module name to imp.find_module, the function fails to import the named module even when it exists in the specified path, returning the error message "No module named ..." as a result.

The problem in Python 2.0 can be traced to line 922 of Python/import.c which ensures that any strings involved in the find_module function must be standard Python strings and not Unicode strings, since it tests the type of path components against &PyString_Type explicitly.

Interestingly, the import built-in function seems to work with Unicode strings. Either way, it would be great if this could be documented or even fixed, but I don't know what the policy is on Unicode module names (even when they only contain ASCII-compatible characters).

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