[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-509117 ] encoding error when joining path
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Bugs item #509117, was opened at 2002-01-27 03:22
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Category: Distutils
Group: Platform-specific
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Laurent Pointal (pointal)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: encoding error when joining path
Initial Comment:
[platform]
Problem on Python 2.1.1 and Python 2.2.
Platform
Windows 2000 SP2, french version.
With MSVC++6
SP4.
[seealso]
It looks like to be a non-us platform problem,
see:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-
January/083903.html
[description]
While installing
StandaloneZODB, python setup.py build ended with the followiong
traceback:
...[zipped many file copying & Co]...
copying
zdaemon\ZDaemonLogging.py -> build\lib.win32-
2.1\zdaemon
copying zdaemon\__init__.py -> build\lib.win32-
2.1\zdaemon
running build_ext
Traceback (most recent call
last):
File "setup.py", line 108, in ?
headers =
['ExtensionClass/src/ExtensionClass.h',
'ZODB/cPersistence.h'],
File
"t:\dev\python21\lib\distutils\core.py", line 138, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File
"t:\dev\python21\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 899, in
run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File
"t:\dev\python21\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 919, in
run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File
"t:\dev\python21\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 106,
in run
self.run_command(cmd_name)
File
"t:\dev\python21\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 328, in
run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File
"t:\dev\python21\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 919, in
run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File
"t:\dev\python21\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line
230, in run
force=self.force)
File
"t:\dev\python21\lib\distutils\ccompiler.py", line 957, in
new_compiler
return klass (verbose, dry_run, force)
File
"t:\dev\python21\lib\distutils\msvccompiler.py", line 220,
in __init__
os.environ['path'] = string.join(path,';')
File "t:\dev\python21\lib\string.py", line 128, in join
return sep.join(words)
UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error:
ordinal not in range(128)
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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2002-01-27 14:02
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I think the right solution would be to apply the file system
encoding to each of the strings (either to the Unicode
strings, producing byte strings, or vice versa). That, of
course, would require that the file system encoding is
exposed to the application.
I have a PEP in mind titled "Unicode at system interfaces",
which would include exposing the file system encoding, but I
wanted to wait to see reactions (hopefully acceptance) of
PEP 277 first.
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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2002-01-27 10:17
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Laurent, the last component of your PATH:
'C:\Docs\Boulot\S\xe9minaireLORIA-jan2002\DemoCORBA'
in not a Unicode string but contains a "funny character"
(chr(0xe9)). It probably doesn't look funny to you <wink>,
but the Unicode subsystem believes by default that non-
Unicode strings are plain 7-bit ASCII, and \xe9 isn't
legitimate under that belief. Because there are *some*
Unicode strings in your PATH, the join attempt needs to
convert all strings to Unicode, but it can't do it (the
last path component isn't a valid encoding under the
default belief).
As a quick workaround, you could remove that entry from
your PATH. Or you could set Python's belief about the
default encoding to match your belief (it's impossible for
Python to guess this, alas -- for all it knows your last
path component was intended to be German or Navajo).
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Comment By: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2002-01-27 08:32
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Max M's problem (referred to w/ the above url) appeared to
be related to non-ASCII characters in his path. His
resolution is here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-January/083957.html
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Comment By: Laurent Pointal (pointal)
Date: 2002-01-27 04:07
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Here is the "print repr(path)" result:
[u'T:\dev\MSVS\Common\MSDev98\Bin',
u'T:\dev\MSVS\VC98\BIN',
u'T:\dev\MSVS\Common\TOOLS', u'T:\dev\MSVS\Common\
TOOLS\WINNT', u'C:\WINNT\system32', u'C:\WINNT',
u'C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem', u't:\dev\python21',
u'T:\dev\omni\bin\x
86_win32', 'C:\WINNT\system32', 'C:\WINNT', 'C:\WINNT\S
ystem32
\Wbem', 't:\dev\python21', 'T:\dev\MSVS\Common\Tools\
\
WinNT', 'T:\dev\MSVS\Common\MSDev98
\Bin', 'T:\dev\MSVS\Common\Tools', 'T:\dev\MSVS\VC98
\bin', 't:\Tools\TeX\bin\
\win32', 'T:\dev\omni\bin\x86_win32', 'T:\dev\root\bi
n', 'T:\dev\root\usr\X11R6
\bin', 't:\dev\bins', 'T:\dev\jdk
1.3.1_01\bin', 'T:\dev\jdk1.3.1_01
\jre\bin', 'T:\dev\python21
\PyQt\bin', 't:\dev\python21\Scripts', 'C:\Program Fil
es\WinRAR', 'C:\Program
Files\ARJ', 'T:\Tools\WaveMetrics\Igor Pro
Folder', 't:\Tools\qt\bin', 'C:\Docs\Boulot\S\xe9
minaireLORIA-jan2002\DemoCORBA']
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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2002-01-27 03:30
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Can you please enhance your local copy of
distutils/msvccompiler to add a line of
print repr(path)
immediately above line 220, and report the output?
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