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

Walter Dörwald walter at livinglogic.de
Wed Mar 30 13:43:50 CEST 2005

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Walter Dörwald wrote:

So can I have one setup.py for both Python 2.4 and Python 2.5 that does the correct thing when creating a Windows installer for Python 2.4 (I've used Unicode strings for that until now) and using the upload command with Python CVS (which seems to require a byte string now)? I'd like to avoid having to use version checks in setup.py. Well, the upload command doesn't look at the metadata. It is the register command which does,

OK.

and it indeed requires utf-8 at the moment. This can be fixed, of course,

The register command in 2.4 (and current CVS) simply does a value = str(value) in post_to_server() so the encoded bytes sent depend on the default encoding. Would it be sufficient to change this to value = unicode(value).encode("utf-8")

Another solution might be to include the encoding in the Content-type header of the request. IMHO the best solution would be to do both: Always use UTF-8 as the encoding and include this in the Content-type header in the request. PyPI should honor this encoding when it finds it and should fall back to whatever it used before if it doesn't.

but not for already-released versions.

True, but I can live with that as long as I can use the same setup.py for bdist_windist and register under Python 2.4 and upload under Python CVS.

Bye, Walter Dörwald

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