[issue23315] tempfile.mkdtemp fails with non-ascii paths on Python 2

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Python 2.7 is no longer supported. -- resolution: -> out of date stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue23315] tempfile.mkdtemp fails with non-ascii paths on Python 2

Richard PALO added the comment: This turns out to be related to the locale environment set to 'C'. A UTF-8 locale seems to get over the issue. A fellow pkgsrc colleague filed an issue with lxml already relating to that fact for the test suite (https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1522052) che

[issue23315] tempfile.mkdtemp fails with non-ascii paths on Python 2

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: The similar problem in Python 3 was addressed in issue24230. But this was a new feature. As for lxml tests, I suggest to use bytes names compatible with all Windows OEM encodings (consisting of ASCII + b'\xa9\xb0\xb2\xb3\xb4\xb8\xb9\xba\xbb\xbc\xbd\xbe\xbf\

[issue23315] tempfile.mkdtemp fails with non-ascii paths on Python 2

Richard PALO added the comment: curiously enough, I was able to test with python3.5. The same errors result, and the same workaround seems to get over it. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue23315] tempfile.mkdtemp fails with non-ascii paths on Python 2

Richard PALO added the comment: If I also add .encode('utf-8') to filename on line 278, that seems gets over the pathname problem. I guess it comes down to the fact that if sys.filesystemencoding() is utf-8, which in my case it is (on SunOS), I believe these conversion should be automatic. -

[issue23315] tempfile.mkdtemp fails with non-ascii paths on Python 2

Richard PALO added the comment: I notice similar problems, as found when running the test suite for lxml 3.5.0 on python2.7 == ERROR: test_etree_parse_io_error (lxml.tests.test_io.ETreeIOTestCase) --

[issue23315] tempfile.mkdtemp fails with non-ascii paths on Python 2

STINNER Victor added the comment: Why do you use an unicode prefix? Does it work with a bytes prefix? You should use Python 3 if you want the best Unicode support. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue23315] tempfile.mkdtemp fails with non-ascii paths on Python 2

New submission from Akira Li: Python 2.7.9 (default, Jan 25 2015, 13:41:30) [GCC 4.9.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os, sys, tempfile >>> d = u'\u20ac'.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding()) # non-ascii >>> if not os.path.isd