[Distutils] PEP 376 comments

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Sridhar
Ratnakumar<sridharr at activestate.com> wrote:
>
>> My best guess is that it doesn't use any encoding, it just
>> dumps the bytes in the string you specified in the PKG-INFO file (at
>> least for python2, I haven't checked what distutils does in python3).
>
> Correct; that is what I thought. Tarek said "The encoding used is utf-8
> since 2.6" .. for which I provided this counter-example (python-wifi-0.3.1).
>

In Python 2 >= 2.6 distutils uses dist.PKG_INFO_ENCODING (which is  'utf-8')

then, uses this encoding when it writes the PKG-INFO file.

That is:

<<<<
        if isinstance(value, unicode):
            value = value.encode(PKG_INFO_ENCODING)
        else:
            value = str(value)
        file.write('%s: %s\n' % (name, value))
>>>>

In Python 3 it just writes the fields like they are provided.



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