[Python-Dev] New PyPI broken package editing (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Mar 27 17:21:38 CEST 2005

Walter Dörwald wrote:

I'm not sure if this is the right approach.

I think the approach is right, but the implementation is wrong.

The encoding I specify in setup.py should be independent of the encoding used between distutils and PyPI to communicate on the wire. I.e. the author (and maintainer) argument should always be unicode.

"should" is a correct description. It should allow Unicode strings, which it then should encode to UTF-8 during transmission. The matter of fact is that the register command as released in 2.4 (and 2.4.1) doesn't.

When str is passed, this is treated as any other str in a unicode context, it is decoded using the default encoding. This would fix another problem: It would make it nearly impossible to send a request to PyPI with the wrong encoding, because any encoding problems are sorted out completely on the client side.

distutils should not assume that byte strings are in the default encoding. It is fair to assume they are in ASCII; if the administrator has changed the default encoding, then this cannot possibly affect all the setup.py files out there. Also, it is a fact that the deployed versions of the register command just send byte strings in setup.py as-is, without trying to do any kind of recoding.

In any case, PyPI now requires that the form submission uses UTF-8, and refuses anything else. So it is impossible to send, say, Latin-1; whether the client makes that happen by properly encoding Unicode strings or whether they are in setup.py in the first place does not matter.

Is there a way to display the HTTP response by PyPI?

Yes, please invoke upload with --show-response.

Editing the package is still broken. The link "edit" on the page http://www.python.org/pypi/ll-ansistyle/0.6.1 gives: --- Error...

There's been a problem with your request exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 92: ordinal not in range(128)

I see. I'll investigate.

Martin

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