[Python-Dev] 2.2a3 oddities

[Guido van Rossum]

> anyone else seeing this?
> 
> 1) using a local windows build, I keep getting complaints
> about a missing symbol in the python22.dll:
> 
>     _PyGC_Insert
> 
> an easy way to get this is to import the "xmlrpclib" module
> into a clean interpreter.
> 
> (fwiw, this doesn't stop Python -- once you click OK, the
> interpreter proceeds as if nothing happened...)

Works fine in 2.2a3.  Sounds like a version mismatch between DLL and
PYD file -- Neil changed the GC API, but did it with macros.

> 2) most C functions that expect 8-bit strings crash if you
> hand them a unicode string containing non-ascii characters.
> 
> an example:
> 
> >>> import socket
> >>> socket.gethostbyname(u"pythönware.com")
> 
> this works as expected in 2.1.1 (that is, I get an exception).
> it doesn't work in a local build of 2.2a2.

Yes, confirmed in 2.2a3 :-(

Tim?  Time for a debug session?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)