New submission from Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr@activestate.com>: Calling `fetch_distribution` with req = "fl-gelform" and source = True results in the following traceback. sdist = pi.fetch_distribution(req, directory, source=True) File "/home/sridharr/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/ package_index.py", line 465, in fetch_distribution self.find_packages(requirement) File "/home/sridharr/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/ package_index.py", line 303, in find_packages self.scan_url(self.index_url + requirement.unsafe_name+'/') File "/home/sridharr/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/ package_index.py", line 617, in scan_url self.process_url(url, True) File "/home/sridharr/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/ package_index.py", line 190, in process_url f = self.open_url(url, "Download error: %s -- Some packages may not be found!") File "/home/sridharr/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/ package_index.py", line 578, in open_url return open_with_auth(url) File "/home/sridharr/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/ package_index.py", line 717, in open_with_auth fp = urllib2.urlopen(request) File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 124, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 395, in open response = meth(req, response) File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 508, in http_response 'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs) File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 427, in error result = self._call_chain(*args) File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 367, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 577, in http_error_302 newurl = urlparse.urljoin(req.get_full_url(), newurl) File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/urlparse.py", line 219, in urljoin params, query, fragment)) File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/urlparse.py", line 184, in urlunparse return urlunsplit((scheme, netloc, url, query, fragment)) File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/urlparse.py", line 190, in urlunsplit url = '//' + (netloc or '') + url UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128) ---------- messages: 450 nosy: srid priority: bug status: unread title: setuptools fails with non-ascii urls in pypi _______________________________________________ Setuptools tracker <setuptools@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue91> _______________________________________________