[New-bugs-announce] [issue2798] Crash on non-Windows if Python runs from a non-ASCII directory

[Antoine Pitrou]

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:

(Note: I'm splitting this from #1342 because the fix is much simpler in
the non-Windows case)

py3k does not accept running from a path with non-ascii characters.

$ pwd
/home/antoine/py3k/héhé
$ ./python
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/pristine/Lib/encodings/__init__.py", line 32,
in <module>
TypeError: zipimporter() argument 1 must be string without null bytes,
not str
Abandon

The following patch solves the problem by fixing a bug in getargs.c
where the "no null bytes" check for non-ASCII strings was wrong.

There is still a failing test, test_xmlrpc, apparently because xmlrpc
wants to output its path in an HTTP header using the "ascii" encoding...
I'd say this is an xmlrpc issue and not an issue with the patch.

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components: Interpreter Core
files: getargs.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 66461
nosy: christian.heimes, pitrou
severity: normal
status: open
title: Crash on non-Windows if Python runs from a non-ASCII directory
type: crash
versions: Python 3.0
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file10230/getargs.patch

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