New submission from Michele Orrù: $ echo "__author__ = u'Michele Orr\xf9'" > foo.py && python -c "import foo; print foo.__author__; help(foo)" Michele Orrù Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 467, in __call__ return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/pydoc.py", line 1747, in __call__ self.help(request) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/pydoc.py", line 1794, in help else: doc(request, 'Help on %s:') File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/pydoc.py", line 1531, in doc pager(render_doc(thing, title, forceload)) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/pydoc.py", line 1526, in render_doc return title % desc + '\n\n' + text.document(object, name) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/pydoc.py", line 329, in document if inspect.ismodule(object): return self.docmodule(*args) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/pydoc.py", line 1126, in docmodule result = result + self.section('AUTHOR', str(object.__author__)) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf9' in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)
---------- components: Unicode messages: 169196 nosy: eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, maker priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: pydoc does not handle unicode AUTHOR field type: crash versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15791> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com