Hi,

using Python3.1, if I say
import site

I get

File "/usr/lib64/python3.1/site.py", line 472, in setencoding
sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding) # Needs Python Unicode build !
ValueError: Can only set default encoding to utf-8

But

emerge -vp dev-lang/python-3.1.3 shows
USE="doc gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline sqlite ssl threads tk (wide-
unicode) xml -build -examples -wininst"

Why is 'wide-unicode' in parentheses?
eix dev-lang/python shows
the wide-unicode use flag.

What's going on here?

Many thanks for a hint,
Helmut.

On 01/21/2011 12:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:

Hi,

using Python3.1, if I say
import site

I get

File "/usr/lib64/python3.1/site.py", line 472, in setencoding
sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding) # Needs Python Unicode build !
ValueError: Can only set default encoding to utf-8

But

emerge -vp dev-lang/python-3.1.3 shows
USE="doc gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline sqlite ssl threads tk (wide-
unicode) xml -build -examples -wininst"

Why is 'wide-unicode' in parentheses?


Hm. Try using a different tool, like equery u python. Note the warning
about changing that useflag.

On 01/21/2011 04:26:09 PM, walt wrote:
> On 01/21/2011 12:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > using Python3.1, if I say
> > import site
> >
> > I get
> >
> > File "/usr/lib64/python3.1/site.py", line 472, in setencoding
> > sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding) # Needs Python Unicode
> build !
> > ValueError: Can only set default encoding to utf-8
> >
> > But
> >
> > emerge -vp dev-lang/python-3.1.3 shows
> > USE="doc gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline sqlite ssl threads tk (wide-
> > unicode) xml -build -examples -wininst"
> >
> > Why is 'wide-unicode' in parentheses?
>
> Hm. Try using a different tool, like equery u python. Note the
> warning
> about changing that useflag.

Thanks, unfortunately I don't understand the output
I've got
[ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation]
[ : I - package is installed with flag ]
[ Colors : set, unset ]
* Found these USE flags for dev-lang/python-3.1.3:
.....
- + wide-unicode : Enable wide Unicode implementation which uses 4-
byte
Unicode characters. Switching of this USE flag
changes ABI
of Python and requires reinstallation of many
Python
modules. (DON'T DISABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
YOU'RE
DOING)

So, I have U- but I+ on wide-unicode
What does that mean?

Thanks,
Helmut.

On 01/21/2011 07:48 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:

On 01/21/2011 04:26:09 PM, walt wrote:

On 01/21/2011 12:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:

Hi,

using Python3.1, if I say
import site

I get

File "/usr/lib64/python3.1/site.py", line 472, in setencoding
sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding) # Needs Python Unicode

build !

ValueError: Can only set default encoding to utf-8

But

emerge -vp dev-lang/python-3.1.3 shows
USE="doc gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline sqlite ssl threads tk (wide-
unicode) xml -build -examples -wininst"

Why is 'wide-unicode' in parentheses?


Hm. Try using a different tool, like equery u python. Note the
warning
about changing that useflag.


Thanks, unfortunately I don't understand the output
I've got
[ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation]
[ : I - package is installed with flag ]
[ Colors : set, unset ]
* Found these USE flags for dev-lang/python-3.1.3:
.....
- + wide-unicode : Enable wide Unicode implementation which uses 4-
byte
Unicode characters. Switching of this USE flag
changes ABI
of Python and requires reinstallation of many
Python
modules. (DON'T DISABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT
YOU'RE
DOING)

So, I have U- but I+ on wide-unicode
What does that mean?


I just re-emerged python:3.1 as a test, and I see exactly the same but
I don't get that error.

For some reason site.py certainly thinks your python3 is built without
wide-unicode. Have you tried re-installing python3 just for fun?

You could try deleting site.pyc and site.pyo as an easy test.

On 01/21/2011 10:14:33 PM, walt wrote:
> On 01/21/2011 07:48 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > On 01/21/2011 04:26:09 PM, walt wrote:
> >> On 01/21/2011 12:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> using Python3.1, if I say
> >>> import site
> >>>
> >>> I get
> >>>
> >>> File "/usr/lib64/python3.1/site.py", line 472, in setencoding
> >>> sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding) # Needs Python Unicode
> >> build !
> >>> ValueError: Can only set default encoding to utf-8
> >>>
> >>> But
> >>>
> >>> emerge -vp dev-lang/python-3.1.3 shows
> >>> USE="doc gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline sqlite ssl threads tk (wide-
> >>> unicode) xml -build -examples -wininst"
> >>>
> >>> Why is 'wide-unicode' in parentheses?
> >>
> >> Hm. Try using a different tool, like equery u python. Note the
> >> warning
> >> about changing that useflag.
> >
> > Thanks, unfortunately I don't understand the output
> > I've got
> > [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation]
> > [ : I - package is installed with flag ]
> > [ Colors : set, unset ]
> > * Found these USE flags for dev-lang/python-3.1.3:
> > .....
> > - + wide-unicode : Enable wide Unicode implementation which uses
> 4-
> > byte
> > Unicode characters. Switching of this USE flag
> > changes ABI
> > of Python and requires reinstallation of many
> > Python
> > modules. (DON'T DISABLE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW
> WHAT
> > YOU'RE
> > DOING)
> >
> > So, I have U- but I+ on wide-unicode
> > What does that mean?
>
> I just re-emerged python:3.1 as a test, and I see exactly the same
> but
> I don't get that error.
>
> For some reason site.py certainly thinks your python3 is built
> without
> wide-unicode. Have you tried re-installing python3 just for fun?
>
> You could try deleting site.pyc and site.pyo as an easy test.
>

Thanks Walt,
I've noticed that my root account did use an ASCII locale. Now I've
changed that to the same locale en_US.iso88591 that is used in non-root
accounts on my machine. With that I rebuild Python3.1.
And now, the error is gone. A bit strange.
I came along this problem when I tried to emerge the new
package app-portage/smart-live-rebuild
This fails because the author's name contain non-ascii (even non
latin1) characters. The author (Michał Górny) sent me a patch to
distutils.eclass and after generating an utf-8 locale
LANG=en_US.utf-8 emerge -v app-portage/smart-live-rebuild
finally succeeded. He says, it's a Python problem.

Have a nice weekend,
Helmut.