Marius Gedminas <mar...@gedmin.as> added the comment: I don't know what I was smoking when I said pdb.set_trace() wasn't affected; I just reproduced the bug with
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec 7 2009, 18:45:15) [GCC 4.4.1] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import pdb >>> pdb.set_trace() --Return-- > <stdin>(1)<module>()->None (Pdb) raise Exception(u'\xff') *** Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/bdb.py", line 50, in trace_dispatch return self.dispatch_return(frame, arg) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/bdb.py", line 83, in dispatch_return self.user_return(frame, arg) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pdb.py", line 176, in user_return self.interaction(frame, None) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pdb.py", line 194, in interaction self.cmdloop() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/cmd.py", line 142, in cmdloop stop = self.onecmd(line) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pdb.py", line 261, in onecmd return cmd.Cmd.onecmd(self, line) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/cmd.py", line 218, in onecmd return self.default(line) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pdb.py", line 226, in default print >>self.stdout, '***', exc_type_name + ':', v UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xff' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) >>> This makes testing simpler; attached is my very first patch for the Python test suite, please review it mercilessly. (I verified that the test will pass once the bug is fixed by replacing U+00FF with U+0001 and seeing that it passes.) ---------- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15639/test-pdb-unicode-exc.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7539> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com