> Not sure if this would qualify as a patch, but a workaround that seems > to be working for me is to change the bash environment's default > locale setting -- to a value acceptable to py3. > > I did this by adding the following line to /etc/profile: > > export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
It's not a patch - as you say, it's a workaround. It's not clear to me whether this has potentially negative side effects, such as other programs now breaking. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list