[New-bugs-announce] [issue5974] unicode decode error due to improperly entered text "Martin v. Löwis"

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

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

$ python3.1 -Wi -tt -O
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1/compileall.py
-x badsyntax -x site-packages -x test
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1/distutils/command/
Listing
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1/distutils/command/
...
Compiling
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1/distutils/command/bdist_msi.py
...
*** UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position
62-65: invalid data


...

$ grep -R Martin
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1//Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1/distutils/command/bdist_msi.py:#
Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Martin v. L####
....
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1/idlelib/CREDITS.txt:Jim
Jewett, Martin v. L####, Jason Orendorff, Guilherme Polo, Josh Robb,

..

This is causing the ActivePython postinstall script to fail.

As a suggestion only, it may be a good idea to have a separate test case
that to look for unicode decode errors in modules.

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
messages: 87476
nosy: srid, tarek, trentm
severity: normal
status: open
title: unicode decode error due to improperly entered text "Martin v. Löwis"
type: compile error
versions: Python 3.1

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