bad data from urllib when run from MS .bat file

[Stuart McGraw]

"Bengt Richter" <bokr at oz.net> wrote in message news:cilp2b$l3k$0$216.39.172.122 at theriver.com...
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:23:40 -0600, "Stuart McGraw" <smcg4191 at frii.RimoovThisToReply.com> wrote:
> 
> >I just spent a $*#@!*&^&% hour registering at ^$#@#%^ 
> >Sourceforce and trying to submit a Python bug report
> >but it still won't let me.  I give up.  Maybe someone who 
> >cares will see this post, or maybe it will save time for 
> >someone else who runs into this problem...
> >
> >================================================
> >
> >Environment:
> >- Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro
> >- Python 2.3.4
> >- urllib (version shipped with Python-2.3.4)
> >
> >Problem: 
> > urllib returns corrupted data when reading an EUC-JP encoded 
> > web page, from a python script run from a MS Windows .BAT 
> >file, but not when the same script is run from the command line.
> Just a thought: in case your command line is being interpreted
> by cmd.exe and .bat by something else (command.com?) you could
> check if it makes a difference, e.g.,
> 
> copy test.bat test.cmd
> 
> and try it again? (explicitly as test.cmd, not just test, since any
> same-name .com or .exe or .bat may have priority over .cmd)
> You can probably investigate the latter by something like
> 
>  [21:54] C:\pywk\junk>echo %pathext%
>  .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD

Well, I'm pretty sure cmd.exe was executing it, but I tried your
suggestion to make absolutely sure.  Same results :-(
Given the other (seeming) urllib problem I mentioned in another
post in this thread, which appeared without any involvement
of batch scripts, I am getting more and more suspicious that
urllib is buggy, at least with non-single byte data.