[issue7675] help() doesn't accept unicode literals in built in docstrings

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[issue7675] help() doesn't accept unicode literals in built in docstrings

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[issue7675] help() doesn't accept unicode literals in built in docstrings

Florent Xicluna added the comment: New patch: backward compatibility preserved. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15830/issue7675_pydoc_v2.diff ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue7675] help() doesn't accept unicode literals in built in docstrings

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[issue7675] help() doesn't accept unicode literals in built in docstrings

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: The patch should also work with 8-bit docstrings, and the tests should reflect both uses. -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue7675] help() doesn't accept unicode literals in built in docstrings

Florent Xicluna added the comment: The unicode text is sent to the subprocess without encoding. It is encoded implicitly to ASCII (sys.getdefaultencoding()). This patch performs explicit encoding. Tests added. -- keywords: +patch stage: needs patch -> patch review versions: +Python 3.2

[issue7675] help() doesn't accept unicode literals in built in docstrings

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[issue7675] help() doesn't accept unicode literals in built in docstrings

Florent Xicluna added the comment: Confirmed. With Python 2: >>> import pydoc >>> pydoc.pipepager(u'tütdelüt\n', 'cat') Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "./Lib/pydoc.py", line 1357, in pipepager pipe.write(text) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode

[issue7675] help() doesn't accept unicode literals in built in docstrings

New submission from pablo stapff : We use umlaut in our docstrings and when we use the help() function to extract the documentation, the function reports an error: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character Our docstrings are specified as unicode literals and the source file