[issue7885] test_distutils fails if Python built in separate directory

2010-03-31 Thread Dan Dever
Dan Dever added the comment: Adding version 2.6 This fails for me with 2.6.5 in the same way. -- nosy: +dedded versions: +Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue7

[issue3023] Problem with invalidly-encoded command-line arguments (Unix)

2008-12-30 Thread Dan Dever
Dan Dever added the comment: >> What if someone puts unconvertible strings in the password database? > > Which database? It sounds like a different issue. It's yet another special case of the more general issue, which is that Unix strings are strings of bytes that may or m