[ python-Bugs-1498146 ] optparse does not hande unicode help strings

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Bugs item #1498146, was opened at 2006-05-31 07:52
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Category: Unicode
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Tom Cato Amundsen (tomcato)
>Assigned to: Greg Ward (gward)
Summary: optparse does not hande unicode help strings

Initial Comment:
Unicode strings with non-ascii chars in generate a
UnicodeEncodeError

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 1370, in
print_help
    file.write(self.format_help())
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode
characters in position 200-202:
+ordinal not in range(128)

I'm subclassing OptionParser and adds the following
method to get it to work. Should something like this be
done for python 2.5?

def print_help(self, file=None):
    if file is None:
        file = sys.stdout
    file.write(self.format_help().encode(file.encoding,
'replace'))


Tom Cato

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