STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > Okay. I guess you’ll use codecs.open in 2.7
Oh, Python 2.7... DistributionMetadata of distutils encodes most values to byte strings (get_xxx() methods calls self._encode_field). It would be possible to use codecs.open(), but an Unicode file expects Unicode strings. The problem is that the user may provide arbitrary byte strings, I mean strings not encoded to PKG_INFO_ENCODING. Even if such strings are *wrong* (not correctly encoded), is it a good idea to be more strict in a minor version (2.7.x)? I don't want to be responsible of such tricky change, I prefer to leave distutils unchanged in Python 2.7 (at least for PKG-INFO). > please make sure there is no bootstrapping issue > for the build of CPython itself. I checked, there is not bootstrap issue. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9561> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
