[New-bugs-announce] [issue14501] Error initialising BaseManager class with 'authkey' argument of string type.

[Максим Цыпкин]

New submission from Максим Цыпкин <draugervan at gmail.com>:

The following code:

    class TestServer(BaseManager):pass
    Server_1=TestServer(address=("127.0.0.1",55555),authkey="passkey")

produces following error in python 3.2 :

"TypeError: string argument without an encoding"

The cause is in BaseManager constructor implementation (Python32\Lib\multiprocessing\managers.py):

self._authkey = AuthenticationString(authkey)

The "AuthenticationString" class is a substitute of "bytes" class, and 
"bytes" class requires second encoding argument, if first argument is a string.

I've solved this problem, changing the code in "Python32\Lib\multiprocessing\managers.py" to following:

        if isinstance(authkey,str):
            self._authkey = AuthenticationString(authkey,'utf-8')
        else:
            self._authkey = AuthenticationString(authkey)

This works for me. Please consider to fix this issue in release.

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components: Extension Modules
messages: 157539
nosy: Drauger
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Error initialising BaseManager class with 'authkey' argument of string type.
type: crash
versions: Python 3.2

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