Bugs item #1681974, was opened at 2007-03-16 12:03 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1681974&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Python Library Group: Python 2.5 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Markus Niemist� (niemisto) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: mkdtemp fails on Windows if username has non-ASCII character Initial Comment: mkdtemp fails miserably on Windows if Windows user name has any non-ASCII characters, like ä or ö, in it. mkdtemp throws an encoding error. This seems to be because the default temp dir in Windows is "c:\documents and settings\<user name>\local settings\temp". Now if the user name has non-ASCII characters ASCII decoder cannot handle it and creating temp directories won't work. As a work around I have used the following code: tempdir = unicode(tempfile.gettempdir(), 'mbcs') mkdtemp(suffix='foo', dir=tempdir) This applies for both Python 2.4 and Python 2.5. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1681974&group_id=5470
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