-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all (and especially Lennart), I need a quick sanity check. Trying to test a package of mine for Python 3 compatibility I built Python 3.1.2 and installed distribute into it. My package depends on zope.interface. I am executing... $ python3.1 setup.py test It tries to install zope.interface, but fails with this traceback: Running zope.interface-3.6.0/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /var/folders/ZD/ZDGPtbYeGkqB4K7rOkPK4U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-8LJGXC/zope.interface-3.6.0/egg-dist-tmp-xVkH07 Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 58, in <module> <snip> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.1/site-packages/distribute-0.6.10-py3.1.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 33, in <lambda> {'__file__':setup_script, '__name__':'__main__'}) File "setup.py", line 80, in <module> That's not very informative at all. Trying to debug this further I download zope.interface 3.6.0 and attempt to run its tests using "setup.py test", which gives a little more information: Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 80, in <module> + '\n' + File "setup.py", line 65, in read return open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), *rnames)).read() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.1/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 290: ordinal not in range(128) The issue is a non-ASCII character in the Changelog: <snip> - - Added support for Python 3.1. Contributors: Lennart Regebro Martin v Löwis Thomas Lotze Wolfgang Schnerring </snip> Removing the "ö" I can run the tests and buildout. Question: Is this an issue with my particular sandbox? The Python 3.1 I use is a fresh build and I don't manipulate the default encoding anywhere. Thanks! jens -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkvdqjgACgkQRAx5nvEhZLJhpACgunVHthigpkiLO9K4JIskMEYC MGUAn3ocaSIgdrMJG10szA+Ji/48OLO2 =Vfi3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----