New submission from David Watson <bai...@users.sourceforge.net>: The protocol and service/port number databases are typically implemented as text files on Unix and can contain non-ASCII names in any encoding (presumably for local services), but the socket module tries to decode them as strict UTF-8. In particular, getservbyport() and getnameinfo() will raise UnicodeError when this fails.
Attached is a patch for 3.2 to use the file system encoding and surrogateescape handler instead, in line with PEP 383. This is what Python already does for the passwd and group databases, and it will allow protocol and service names to be given correctly as command line arguments. ---------- components: Extension Modules files: proto-service-pep383-3.2.diff keywords: patch messages: 114687 nosy: baikie priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: PEP 383: socket module doesn't handle undecodable protocol or service names type: behavior versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18608/proto-service-pep383-3.2.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9660> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
