[New-bugs-announce] [issue6166] encoding error for 'setup.py --author' when read via subprocess pipe

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

New submission from Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com>:

I ran 'python setup.py --author' for the pypi package "ll-orasql-0.6"
(whose author name has non-ascii characters) under subprocess.Popen and
this is what I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/sridharr/as/pypm/bin/python", line 39, in <module>
    execfile(sys.argv[0])
  File "setup.py", line 50, in <module>
    package_dir={"ll": ""}
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line
138, in setup
    ok = dist.parse_command_line()
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line
456, in parse_command_line
    if self.handle_display_options(option_order):
  File "/opt/ActivePython-2.6/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line
704, in handle_display_options
    print value
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in
position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

When ran under the console, this exception is not seen. Otherwise, the
return code is 1 and nothing (apart from the above exception) is printed.

How to reproduce?
=================

Download `ll-orasql-0.6` from PyPI and run the following in the Python
shell:

>>> subprocess.Popen('python setup.py --author', stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
shell=True).stdout.read()

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
messages: 88664
nosy: srid, tarek
severity: normal
status: open
title: encoding error for 'setup.py --author' when read via subprocess pipe
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6

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