I believe this is the same bug as https://bugs.launchpad.net/pytz/+bug/1473533
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to tzdata in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1501456 Title: pytz.country_names UnicodeDecodeError exception Status in python-tz package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Wily: # python3 -c 'from pytz import country_names for item in country_names.items(): print(item)' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 2, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python3.4/_collections_abc.py", line 497, in __iter__ for key in self._mapping: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pytz/lazy.py", line 41, in __iter__ self._fill() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pytz/__init__.py", line 350, in _fill line = line.decode('US-ASCII') UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) # python -c 'from pytz import country_names print(country_names)' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 2, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/UserDict.py", line 172, in __repr__ return repr(dict(self.iteritems())) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/UserDict.py", line 110, in iteritems for k in self: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pytz/lazy.py", line 41, in __iter__ self._fill() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pytz/__init__.py", line 350, in _fill line = line.decode('US-ASCII') UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) # dpkg-query -l python-tz python3-tz tzdata Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= ii python-tz 2014.10~dfsg all Python version of the Olson timez ii python3-tz 2014.10~dfsg all Python3 version of the Olson time ii tzdata 2015f-1 all time zone and daylight-saving tim Also affect trusty and vivid in the same way. Testing on trusty shows that this broke with the release of tzdata=2015f-0ubuntu0.14.04, prior to that tzdata version country_names could parse the data. debdiff shows that tzdata=2015f-0ubuntu0.14.04 changes this file, and others to utf-8 from ascii. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-tz/+bug/1501456/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
