[Python-Dev] test_unicode_file fails on Linux

[Hye-Shik Chang]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:22:52PM +1100, Mark Hammond wrote:
> > The utime() call is failing for one of the Unicode file names.
> >
> > build> ./python ../Lib/test/test_unicode_file.py
> > test_directories (__main__.TestUnicodeFiles) ... ok
> > test_equivalent_files (__main__.TestUnicodeFiles) ... ok
> > test_single_files (__main__.TestUnicodeFiles) ...
> > '@test-\xc3\xa0\xc3\xb2'
> > '@test-\xc3\xa0\xc3\xb2'
> > u'@test-\xe0\xf2'
> > ERROR
> 
> By default, this test is working for me on Linux.  I suspect it has to do
> with the fact that:
> 
> [skip at bobcat build]$ ./python -c 'import sys;print
> sys.getfilesystemencoding()'
> UTF-8
> 
> By way of testing, I tried:
> [skip at bobcat build]$ export LANG=de_DE
> [skip at bobcat build]$ ./python -c 'import sys;print
> sys.getfilesystemencoding()'
> ISO-8859-1
> 
> And the tests still succeeded.  Trying to work with "ascii" as the encoding
> results in a 'TestSkipped' exception:
> 
> [skip at bobcat build]$ export LANG=C
> [skip at bobcat build]$ ./python -c 'import sys;print
> sys.getfilesystemencoding()'
> ANSI_X3.4-1968
> [skip at bobcat build]$ ./python ../Lib/test/test_unicode_file.py
> ...
> test.test_support.TestSkipped: No Unicode filesystem semantics on this
> platform.
> 
> I even managed to get my Windows 98 box on the network again, and this also
> seems to work for me from current CVS.  I'm really not sure what I am
> missing....
> 

I guess <wink/> that I fixed it on Modules/posixmodule.c rev 2.310.


Hye-Shik