[Python-Dev] Fix Unicode-disabled build of Python 2.7 (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Jun 24 16:24:01 CEST 2014

On 6/24/2014 4:22 AM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:

I submitted a number of patches which fixes currently broken Unicode-disabled build of Python 2.7 (built with --disable-unicode configure option). I suppose this was broken in 2.7 when C implementation of the io module was introduced.

http://bugs.python.org/issue21833 -- main patch which fixes the io module and adds helpers for testing. http://bugs.python.org/issue21834 -- a lot of minor fixes for tests. Following issues fix different modules and related tests:

This list and more to follow suggests that --disable-unicode was somewhat broken long before 2.7 and the introduction of _io.

http://bugs.python.org/issue21854 -- cookielib http://bugs.python.org/issue21838 -- ctypes http://bugs.python.org/issue21855 -- decimal http://bugs.python.org/issue21839 -- distutils http://bugs.python.org/issue21843 -- doctest http://bugs.python.org/issue21851 -- gettext http://bugs.python.org/issue21844 -- HTMLParser http://bugs.python.org/issue21850 -- httplib and SimpleHTTPServer http://bugs.python.org/issue21842 -- IDLE http://bugs.python.org/issue21853 -- inspect http://bugs.python.org/issue21848 -- logging http://bugs.python.org/issue21849 -- multiprocessing http://bugs.python.org/issue21852 -- optparse http://bugs.python.org/issue21840 -- os.path http://bugs.python.org/issue21845 -- plistlib http://bugs.python.org/issue21836 -- sqlite3 http://bugs.python.org/issue21837 -- tarfile http://bugs.python.org/issue21835 -- Tkinter http://bugs.python.org/issue21847 -- xmlrpc http://bugs.python.org/issue21841 -- xml.sax http://bugs.python.org/issue21846 -- zipfile

Most fixes are trivial and are only several lines of a code.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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