New submission from Hirokazu Yamamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I noticed test_tarfile on py3k fails like this.
====================================================================== ERROR: test_directory_size (__main__.WriteTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "test_tarfile.py", line 598, in test_directory_size tarinfo = tar.gettarinfo(path) File "/home/WhiteRabbit/python-dev/py3k/Lib/tarfile.py", line 1869, in gettari nfo tarinfo.gname = grp.getgrgid(tarinfo.gid)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x82 in position 0: unexpecte d code byte ====================================== And I noticed PyUnicode_FromString supposes input as UTF-8, but actually member of struct grp is MBCS or CP932 on cygwin. After patched following workaround, test passed. I don't know how to fix this... Does python have system encoding or something? (I experienced similar error on test_grp and test_pwd) Index: Modules/grpmodule.c =================================================================== --- Modules/grpmodule.c (revision 66345) +++ Modules/grpmodule.c (working copy) @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ static int initialized; static PyTypeObject StructGrpType; +#define PyUnicode_FromString(s) PyUnicode_DecodeMBCS(s, strlen(s), "strict") + static PyObject * mkgrent(struct group *p) { @@ -83,6 +85,8 @@ return v; } +#undef PyUnicode_FromString + static PyObject * grp_getgrgid(PyObject *self, PyObject *pyo_id) { ---------- messages: 72907 nosy: ocean-city severity: normal status: open title: test_tarfile fails on cygwin (unicode decode error) versions: Python 3.0 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3824> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com