On 01/21/2011 10:14:33 PM, walt wrote: > On 01/21/2011 07:48 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > On 01/21/2011 04:26:09 PM, walt wrote: > >> On 01/21/2011 12:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> using Python3.1, if I say > >>> import site > >>> > >>> I get > >>> > >>> File "/usr/lib64/python3.1/site.py", line 472, in setencoding > >>> sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding) # Needs Python Unicode > >> build ! > >>> ValueError: Can only set default encoding to utf-8 > >>> > >>> But > >>> > >>> emerge -vp dev-lang/python-3.1.3 shows > >>> USE="doc gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline sqlite ssl threads tk (wide- > >>> unicode) xml -build -examples -wininst" > >>> > >>> Why is 'wide-unicode' in parentheses? > >> > >> Hm. Try using a different tool, like equery u python. Note the > >> warning > >> about changing that useflag. > > > > Thanks, unfortunately I don't understand the output > > I've got > > [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] > > [ : I - package is installed with flag ] > > [ Colors : set, unset ] > > * Found these USE flags for dev-lang/python-3.1.3: > > ..... > > - + wide-unicode : Enable wide Unicode implementation which uses > 4- > > byte > > Unicode characters. Switching of this USE flag > > changes ABI > > of Python and requires reinstallation of many > > Python > > modules. (DON'T DISABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW > WHAT > > YOU'RE > > DOING) > > > > So, I have U- but I+ on wide-unicode > > What does that mean? > > I just re-emerged python:3.1 as a test, and I see exactly the same > but > I don't get that error. > > For some reason site.py certainly thinks your python3 is built > without > wide-unicode. Have you tried re-installing python3 just for fun? > > You could try deleting site.pyc and site.pyo as an easy test. >
Thanks Walt, I've noticed that my root account did use an ASCII locale. Now I've changed that to the same locale en_US.iso88591 that is used in non-root accounts on my machine. With that I rebuild Python3.1. And now, the error is gone. A bit strange. I came along this problem when I tried to emerge the new package app-portage/smart-live-rebuild This fails because the author's name contain non-ascii (even non latin1) characters. The author (Michał Górny) sent me a patch to distutils.eclass and after generating an utf-8 locale LANG=en_US.utf-8 emerge -v app-portage/smart-live-rebuild finally succeeded. He says, it's a Python problem. Have a nice weekend, Helmut.
