[issue11638] python setup.py sdist --formats tar* crashes if version is unicode

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

> since the issue only applies when sdist --format gztar, I mention that here.
bztar will probably have the same issue.

> Also, issue8396 suggests encoding using sys.getfilesystemencoding().
Good one!

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title: python setup.py sdist crashes if version is unicode -> python setup.py sdist --formats tar* crashes if version is unicode

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