Re: [Distutils] UnicodeDecodeError bug in distutils

Ben Finney writes:

"Phillip J. Eby" writes:

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Meanwhile, the 'register' command accepts Unicode, but is broken in handling it. […]

Unfortunately, this isn't fixable until there's a new 2.5.x release. For previous Python versions, both register and write_pkg_info() accepted 8-bit strings and passed them on as-is, so the only workaround for this issue at the moment is to revert to Python 2.4 or less.

What is the prognosis on this issue? It's still hitting me in Python 2.5.4.

Any word on this? Is there an open bug tracker issue with more information? Who's working on this? -- \ “If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly | `\ owned if it is not shared.” —Saint Augustine | _o__) | Ben Finney