New submission from Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis: getpass.getpass() fails with non-ASCII characters in prompt.
The attached example scripts (for Python 2 and 3) contain non-ASCII unicode prompt (Polish "hasło" == English "password") written in UTF-8. Python-2 version fails always. Python-3 version fails in non-UTF-8 locale. $ ./getpass_test_python2 Traceback (most recent call last): File "./getpass_test_python2", line 5, in <module> getpass.getpass(u"Hasło: ") File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/getpass.py", line 71, in unix_getpass passwd = _raw_input(prompt, stream, input=input) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/getpass.py", line 128, in _raw_input prompt = str(prompt) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0142' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) $ LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" ./getpass_test_python3 Hasło: $ LC_ALL="C" ./getpass_test_python3 Traceback (most recent call last): File "./getpass_test_python3", line 5, in <module> getpass.getpass("Has\u0142o: ") File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/getpass.py", line 78, in unix_getpass passwd = _raw_input(prompt, stream, input=input) File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/getpass.py", line 138, in _raw_input stream.write(prompt) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u0142' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) $ ---------- components: Library (Lib) keywords: easy messages: 215697 nosy: Arfrever priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: getpass.getpass() fails with non-ASCII characters in prompt versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21169> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com