Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I don't understand. It is *certainly* allowed to use byte strings for these data, as long as they are ASCII. The Unicode requirement exists only for non-ASCII characters, and distutils makes explicit, deliberate use of the default encoding here (hoping that nobody changed it away from ASCII).
There are tons of setup.py files out there that use plain byte strings, and there is no reason to break them, e.g. by mandating that the string is Unicode already. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2562> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
