[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-430269 ] python -U breaks import with 2.1

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Bugs item #430269, was updated on 2001-06-05 03:56
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Category: Unicode
Group: Platform-specific
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Walter Dörwald (doerwalter)
Assigned to: M.-A. Lemburg (lemburg)
Summary: python -U breaks import with 2.1

Initial Comment:
python -U under Windows is broken with Python 2.1:

D:\>python
Python 2.1 (#15, Apr 16 2001, 18:25:49) [MSC 32 bit 
(Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more 
information.
>>> import urllib
>>>
^C
D:\>python -U
Python 2.1 (#15, Apr 16 2001, 18:25:49) [MSC 32 bit 
(Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more 
information.
>>> import urllib
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named urllib


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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2001-06-06 00:21

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The (first) problem appears to be in string.py, which has
_idmap = ''
for i in range(256): _idmap = _idmap + chr(i)

With -U, _idmap is a unicode string, and adding chr(128) 
to it will give an ASCII decoding error. Therefore, 
importing string fails. In turn, many other things fail as 
well.

That can be solved by writing
_idmap=str('')
but then it will still complain that distutils.util cannot 
be imported in site. One problem may be that site.py 
changes the strings of sys.path into Unicode strings. In 
fact, when starting Python with -U -S, it will properly 
locate urllib.


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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2001-06-05 18:04

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Assigned to Marc-Andre.  M-A, do you expect -U to be useful 
at this point?  I thought I saw docs at one point, but 
can't seem to find them again ...


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