[issue38581] Crash on distutils/util.py when header variable isn't a string

STINNER Victor added the comment: I'm not sure of the status of bzr. Is it still maintained? It sounds like Breezy is the new upstream. I don't think that it's worth it to bother with modifying distutils. Especially because it will take weeks or months until your system will get the fix. I

[issue38581] Crash on distutils/util.py when header variable isn't a string

Lealinux added the comment: bzr (2.7) fail on install with pip3.7/pip3.8 breezy (3.x) success on install with pip3.7/pip3.8 We can forget the patch and close the report issue; Sorry for the disturb :( -- ___ Python tracker

[issue38581] Crash on distutils/util.py when header variable isn't a string

STINNER Victor added the comment: That sounds like a bug in bzr. You may try Breezy which supports Python 3. https://launchpad.net/brz -- nosy: +vstinner ___ Python tracker _

[issue38581] Crash on distutils/util.py when header variable isn't a string

New submission from Lealinux : Hello, With some pip3 package, distutils could crash if variable "header" isn't a real string variable : $ pip3 install bzr Collecting bzr Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/62/3a/81325e34bcc78f67cc33dfac64f