Pascal Garcia added the comment: Here are 2 logs one with the default site.py forcing defaultencoding to ascii, and the other to utf8. You can see that the home dir includes accents : Pépé Not an insult to anybody but this stupid computer :)
When I force using the locale.getdefaultlocale() as encoding then the function works, but, after having called expanduser, I need to make an explicit decode(locale.getdefaultlocale()), or else the string can not be used to build path to files. ==> with ASCII C:\Users\pépé>D:\DevelopmentWorkspaces\SCOLASYNC\ScolaSyncNG\scolasync-ng\src\scolasync.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\DevelopmentWorkspaces\SCOLASYNC\ScolaSyncNG\scolasync-ng\src\scolasync.py", line 329, in <module> run() File "D:\DevelopmentWorkspaces\SCOLASYNC\ScolaSyncNG\scolasync-ng\src\scolasync.py", line 206, in run globaldef.initDefs(wd, force) File "D:\DevelopmentWorkspaces\SCOLASYNC\ScolaSyncNG\scolasync-ng\src\globaldef.py", line 80, in initDefs wrkdir= os.path.expanduser(u"~"+os.sep) File "C:\Python27\lib\ntpath.py", line 301, in expanduser return userhome + path[i:] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128) WITH UTF8 : C:\Users\pépé>D:\DevelopmentWorkspaces\SCOLASYNC\ScolaSyncNG\scolasync-ng\src\scolasync.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\DevelopmentWorkspaces\SCOLASYNC\ScolaSyncNG\scolasync-ng\src\scolasync.py", line 329, in <module> run() File "D:\DevelopmentWorkspaces\SCOLASYNC\ScolaSyncNG\scolasync-ng\src\scolasync.py", line 206, in run globaldef.initDefs(wd, force) File "D:\DevelopmentWorkspaces\SCOLASYNC\ScolaSyncNG\scolasync-ng\src\globaldef.py", line 80, in initDefs wrkdir= os.path.expanduser(u"~"+os.sep) File "C:\Python27\lib\ntpath.py", line 301, in expanduser return userhome + path[i:] File "C:\Python27\lib\encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 10: invalid continuation byte ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18171> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com