Ned Deily added the comment: I can reproduce the failure by arbitrarily adding a non-ascii character to one of the mailcap files searched for by the mailcap module (https://docs.python.org/3/library/mailcap.html#mailcap.getcaps), like $HOME/.mailcap, and by setting the process to an ascii-only locale (export LANG=C). While this might be a somewhat unusual combination in practice, mailcap should be able to handle it.
By the way, this is a Python 3 problem since test_mailcap does not exist in Python 2. 2.7.6 might be the version of the system-supplied Python, but you appeared to be running with a Python you built. Try ./python -V to show the version of the Python you are using. ---------- components: +Library (Lib) -Tests nosy: +ned.deily stage: -> needs patch title: test_mailcap fails -> test_mailcap fails if a mailcap file contains a non-decodable character type: crash -> versions: +Python 3.4, Python 3.5 -Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24152> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
