Hello,

when I run "python setup.py sdist upload" on my package, it fails with the following traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 86, in <module> cmdclass=cmdclass) File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup dist.run_commands() File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 987, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 1007, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/distutils/command/upload.py", line 57, in run self.upload_file(command, pyversion, filename) File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/distutils/command/upload.py", line 135, in upload_file value = str(value) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

I'm running Python 2.6.4 on mac os X. Note also that I could register the package on pypi without any problem.

Apparently, the problem occurs because of the maintainer=u'Sébastien BARTHÉLEMY' argument to the setup command.

This seems to be a known problem : http://bugs.python.org/issue1076233 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1162338/whats-the-right-way-to-use-unicod...

If I read well, it should be fixed in 2.6. Can you confirm this problem is (at least officially) fixed for python 2.6.4 ? Any idea or workaround ?

Thanks

Sébastien