[issue36998] distutils sdist command fails to create MANIFEST if any filenames are undecodable
STINNER Victor
report at bugs.python.org
Tue May 21 17:40:03 EDT 2019
STINNER Victor <vstinner at redhat.com> added the comment:
The traceback comes from Python 3.5. Python 3.7 now uses UTF-8 when the LC_CTYPE locale is "C" or "POSIX", thanks to C locale coercion (PEP 538) and UTF-8 Mode (PEP 540):
https://vstinner.github.io/posix-locale.html
https://vstinner.github.io/python37-new-utf8-mode.html
Can you please retry your test using Python 3.7?
I would prefer to not start to use errors="surrogateescape" everywhere, especially if the issue is already fixed.
errors="surrogateescape" basically means: "I want to produce a file that other people will unable to read...
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def write_file (filename, contents):
"""Create a file with the specified name and write 'contents' (a
sequence of strings without line terminators) to it.
"""
f = open(filename, "w")
...
For me, the first obvious bug is that the encoding is not specified. I don't see how an application on a different computer is supposed to read a text file if the encoding is not well defined...
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nosy: +vstinner
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