[Zope3-dev] Re: str to unicode promotion test failures (with patch)

[Tres Seaver]

Osvaldo Santana wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm attaching a little patch to fix failures in zope.app.container tests.
> 
> I don't know if this is the correct solution for this problem but in
> my Python is possible to promote a string with hi-bit-set characters
> to unicode (charset Latin1/ISO8859-1):
> 
> ---
> Python 2.3.4 (#1, Aug 15 2004, 14:14:00)
> [GCC 3.3.3 (release)] on linux-i386
> 
>>>>s = "A string with hi-bit-set characters: \700\701"
>>>>unicode(s)
> 
> u'A string with hi-bit-set characters: \xc0\xc1'
> ---
> 
> This situation causes failures in BTrees tests too:
> 
> Error in test testBucketGet (BTrees.tests.test_compare.CompareTest)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/home/osvaldo/Zope3/src/BTrees/tests/test_compare.py", line 32, in setUp
>     self.assertRaises(UnicodeError, unicode, self.s)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/unittest.py", line 295, in failUnlessRaises
>     raise self.failureException, excName
> AssertionError: UnicodeError

I'll bet you have a 'sys.setdefaultencoding' in your Python's site.py; 
try rerunning the test without it, and see if it fails.

Tres.
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