[Python-Dev] python -U fails

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Vladimir Marangozov wrote:
> 
> Seen on c.l.py (import site fails due to eval on an unicode string):
> 
> ~/python/Python-2.0b1>python -U
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> Python 2.0b1 (#2, Sep  7 2000, 12:59:53)
> [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> eval (u"1+2")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: eval() argument 1 must be string or code object
> >>>
> 
> The offending eval is in os.py
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./Lib/site.py", line 60, in ?
>     import sys, os
>   File "./Lib/os.py", line 331, in ?
>     if _exists("fork") and not _exists("spawnv") and _exists("execv"):
>   File "./Lib/os.py", line 325, in _exists
>     eval(name)

Note that many thing fail when Python is started with -U... that
switch was introduced to be able to get an idea of which parts
of the standard fail to work in a mixed string/Unicode environment.

In the above case, I guess the eval() could be replaced by some
other logic which does a try: except NameError: check.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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