[Python-Dev] Automated testing of patches from bugs.python.org (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed May 20 20:03:22 CEST 2015

On 5/20/2015 3:44 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:

This was intended to add status for bugs.python.org, but the work on Roundup had stalled due to uncertainty and despair on how to handle utf-8 (internal to Roundup) vs unicode (internal to Jinja2) in this issue: http://issues.roundup-tracker.org/issue2550811 The root of the problem is that Python 2.7 uses 'ascii' and not 'utf-8' internally, so Jinja2 engine fails with 'ascii' ordinal not in range somewhere in the way. Need an expert advice how to handle that, because my brain power is not enough to process it.

In my view, the root of the problem is using Python 2 and working with encoded bytes. The fix is to upgrade to Python 3.3+, with an improved text model (unicode str class), and work with text. Follow the standard process: decode encoded bytes to text when received from browsers, work internally with text, and encode output just before sending to browsers.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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