New submission from Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com>: There was a report[1] on c.l.p. that python3 from the OS X Python 3.1 dmg download at www.python.org/download/releases/3.1/ crashes on startup. I can reproduce this with the python.org download (using the OS X Terminal) only with a bad locale setting:
newton:~ dickinsm$ LANG=utf-8 python3 Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams LookupError: unknown encoding: Abort trap (core dumped) The core dump isn't useful: just lots of 'No symbol table info available.' This is on OS X 10.5.7/Intel. I can't reproduce it with either the py3k branch or the release31-maint branch, built from scratch. I suspect that this has to do with the behaviour of nl_langinfo(CODESET) on OS X: namely, after doing (in C) setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""), the result of nl_langinfo(CODESET) appears to be "UTF-8" for well-defined utf-8 locales (e.g., 'en_US.UTF-8'), "US-ASCII" for meaningless locales (e.g., 'invalid'), but one just gets "" for locales like 'utf-8' or 'en_US'. This in turn affects Python's locale.getpreferredencoding function. See also issue 2173, which may be related. Ronald, any ideas? [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2009-June/718255.html ---------- assignee: ronaldoussoren components: Interpreter Core, Macintosh messages: 89972 nosy: marketdickinson, ronaldoussoren severity: normal status: open title: OS X: python3 from python-3.1.dmg crashes at startup type: crash versions: Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6393> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
