New submission from Beda Kosata <b...@zirael.org>: The method subprocess.Popen.communicate (more the underlying _communicate) writes the input to the stdin stream without encoding, regardless of it being a unicode string. The result is incorrect behavior of the running program as it receives 4 bytes for each character. As simple text program is here:
import subprocess from base64 import b16encode command = ["cat"] p = subprocess.Popen(command, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) data = u"test text" o, er = p.communicate(data) print b16encode(o) I believe that this issue is closely related to Issue2683 where this was fixed for Python 3.0. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 82304 nosy: beda severity: normal status: open title: subprocess.Popen.communicate does not encode unicode strings type: behavior versions: Python 2.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5290> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
