[New-bugs-announce] [issue8663] Failed compile in a non-ASCII path

[Antoine Pitrou]

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:

Distutils fails logging characters which are not part of the "default encoding":

http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/builders/AMD64%20Ubuntu%20wide%203.x/builds/1062/steps/compile/logs/stdio

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  File "/home/buildbot/cpython-ucs4-nonascii-\u20ac/3.x.pitrou-ubuntu-wide/build/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py", line 67, in mkpath
    log.info("creating %s", head)
  File "/home/buildbot/cpython-ucs4-nonascii-\u20ac/3.x.pitrou-ubuntu-wide/build/Lib/distutils/log.py", line 40, in info
    self._log(INFO, msg, args)
  File "/home/buildbot/cpython-ucs4-nonascii-\u20ac/3.x.pitrou-ubuntu-wide/build/Lib/distutils/log.py", line 30, in _log
    stream.write('%s\n' % msg)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u20ac' in position 81: ordinal not in range(128)
[54439 refs]

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
messages: 105320
nosy: haypo, pitrou, tarek
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Failed compile in a non-ASCII path
type: compile error
versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2

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