I'm not sure whether this is a bug, or a feature that I do not fully understand. I would therefore appreciate some advice, if you have any, on the following problem:
I have just installed Python 2.5 (release) under MacOS 10.4.7 ("Tiger"). Unfortunately, the unit test "test_unicodefile.py" (in Lib/tests/) exhibits a warning when invoked, as shown here: [Lib/test] % python2.5 test_unicode_file.py test_directories (__main__.TestUnicodeFiles) ... ok test_unicode_file.py:103: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal filename1==filename2 test_equivalent_files (__main__.TestUnicodeFiles) ... ok test_single_files (__main__.TestUnicodeFiles) ... ok ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 3 tests in 0.252s As you can see, the unit tests appear to pass, but I suspect there is a hidden problem, as a subsequent build of the latest version of BeautifulSoup now fails its unit tests, citing the same warning. I can't tell whether this is a problem with the way BeautifulSoup is doing things, or whether there is a more general problem with Unicode support in the MacOS build of Python 2.5. For reference, I have done a framework build of Python, and it seems to work fine for everything else I have tried. Do you have any idea what might be causing this trouble? I'd be grateful for your insights. Cheers, -M -- Michael J. Fromberger | Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sting/ | Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list