[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-646408 ] old UnicodeData.txt

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Bugs item #646408, was opened at 2002-12-01 13:54
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Category: Unicode
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Matthias Klose (doko)
Assigned to: M.-A. Lemburg (lemburg)
Summary: old UnicodeData.txt

Initial Comment:
[submitted at http://bugs.debian.org/171061]

The version mentioned is CVS 021121 HEAD

unicodedata.so is obviously built with older
UnicodeData.txt file,
and does not match new characters introduced in Unicode
3.2.
To fix it, I copied UnicodeData.txt (conveniently
provided by perl-modules
in /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/unicore/UnicodeData.txt) to
the top of
unpacked python2.3 source package, renamed it to
UnicodeData-Latest.txt,
ran "python Tools/unicode/makeunicodedata.py" and then
recompiled
python2.3 package. This should probably be addressed
upstream as well.

before:
>>> import unicodedata
>>> unicodedata.name(u'\u20b0')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  ValueError: no such name

after:
>>> import unicodedata
>>> unicodedata.name(u'\u20b0')
'GERMAN PENNY SIGN'





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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2002-12-01 14:30

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Are you sure you are using the current CVS? In my copy of 
the CVS, renaming to UnicodeData-Latest is not necessary, 
and GERMANY PENNY SIGN is included in the database.

To verify that you use the current CVS, please report the 
value of unicodedata.unidata_version.

Fredrik, Debian has the Python 2.3 package only in 
its "unstable" (and "testing") distribution, see

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/interpreters/python2.3.ht
ml

It is common to provide Debian packages for CVS versions of 
software in "unstable", so that the Debian developers can 
analyse effects of upcoming versions on their software.

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Comment By: Fredrik Lundh (effbot)
Date: 2002-12-01 14:18

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Why is Debian shipping a "python2.3", when
Python 2.3 hasn't been released yet (it's not
even in alpha)?

(the Unicode database in the current Python
CVS has already been updated...)

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