string.encode on HP-UX

[Richard Townsend]

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for your suggestion, however it produces two problems for me.

1. If I execute the code in the interpreter, it still fails like this:

>>> import encodings
>>> encodings.aliases.aliases['roman8']='latin_1'
>>> 'hello'.encode('roman8')

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in -toplevel-
    'hello'.encode('roman8')
LookupError: unknown encoding: roman8


2. If I put the code in site-packages/sitecustomize.py, it fails like
this:

capulet:home/richardt > python -v
# installing zipimport hook
import zipimport # builtin
# installed zipimport hook
# /opt/python/lib/python2.3/site.pyc matches /opt/python/lib/python2.3/s
ite.py
import site # precompiled from /opt/python/lib/python2.3/site.pyc
# /opt/python/lib/python2.3/os.pyc matches /opt/python/lib/python2.3/os.
py
import os # precompiled from /opt/python/lib/python2.3/os.pyc
import posix # builtin
# /opt/python/lib/python2.3/posixpath.pyc matches /opt/python/lib/python
2.3/posixpath.py
import posixpath # precompiled from /opt/python/lib/python2.3/posixpath.
pyc
# /opt/python/lib/python2.3/stat.pyc matches /opt/python/lib/python2.3/s
tat.py
import stat # precompiled from /opt/python/lib/python2.3/stat.pyc
# /opt/python/lib/python2.3/UserDict.pyc matches /opt/python/lib/python2
.3/UserDict.py
import UserDict # precompiled from /opt/python/lib/python2.3/UserDict.py
c
# /opt/python/lib/python2.3/copy_reg.pyc matches /opt/python/lib/python2
.3/copy_reg.py
import copy_reg # precompiled from /opt/python/lib/python2.3/copy_reg.py
c
# /opt/python/lib/python2.3/types.pyc matches /opt/python/lib/python2.3/
types.py
import types # precompiled from /opt/python/lib/python2.3/types.pyc
# /opt/python/lib/python2.3/site-packages/sitecustomize.pyc matches
/opt/python/lib/python2.3/site-packages/sitecustomize.py
import sitecustomize # precompiled from /opt/python/lib/python2.3/site-
packages/sitecustomize.pyc
import encodings # directory /opt/python/lib/python2.3/encodings
# /opt/python/lib/python2.3/encodings/__init__.pyc matches /opt/python/l
ib/python2.3/encodings/__init__.py
import encodings # precompiled from /opt/python/lib/python2.3/encodings/
__init__.pyc
# /opt/python/lib/python2.3/codecs.pyc matches /opt/python/lib/python2.3
/codecs.py
import codecs # precompiled from /opt/python/lib/python2.3/codecs.pyc
import _codecs # builtin
'import site' failed; traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/python/lib/python2.3/site.py", line 355, in ?
    import sitecustomize
  File "/opt/python/lib/python2.3/site-packages/sitecustomize.py", line
7, in ?
    encodings.aliases.aliases['roman8']='latin_1'
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'aliases'
# /opt/python/lib/python2.3/warnings.pyc matches /opt/python/lib/python2
.3/warnings.py
import warnings # precompiled from /opt/python/lib/python2.3/warnings.py
c
# /opt/python/lib/python2.3/linecache.pyc matches /opt/python/lib/python
2.3/linecache.py
import linecache # precompiled from /opt/python/lib/python2.3/linecache.
pyc
# /opt/python/lib/python2.3/encodings/aliases.pyc matches /opt/python/li
b/python2.3/encodings/aliases.py
import encodings.aliases # precompiled from /opt/python/lib/python2.3/en
codings/aliases.pyc
Python 2.3.4 (#3, May 28 2004, 13:24:19) [C] on hp-ux11
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

-- 
Richard Townsend