Jens Diemer <bugs.python....@jensdiemer.de> added the comment: I have the same problem, using distutils (and not distutils2):
Traceback (most recent call last): File "./setup.py", line 60, in <module> test_suite="creole.tests.run_all_tests", File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup dist.run_commands() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "/home/jens/python2creole_env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/sdist.py", line 147, in run File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/sdist.py", line 448, in make_distribution owner=self.owner, group=self.group) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 392, in make_archive owner=owner, group=group) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/archive_util.py", line 237, in make_archive filename = func(base_name, base_dir, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/archive_util.py", line 101, in make_tarball tar = tarfile.open(archive_name, 'w|%s' % tar_compression[compress]) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 1687, in open _Stream(name, filemode, comptype, fileobj, bufsize), File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 431, in __init__ self._init_write_gz() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 459, in _init_write_gz self.__write(self.name + NUL) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 475, in __write self.buf += s UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) The Problem seems that tarfile._Stream() can't handle 'name' as unicode. With this changes, it works: class _Stream: ... def __init__(self, name, mode, comptype, fileobj, bufsize): ... self.name = str(name) or "" ++++ + Don't know it this is related to the usage of: from __future__ import unicode_literals ? ---------- components: +Distutils _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11638> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com