str/bytes/encoding problems on Windows

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str/bytes/encoding problems on Windows

cfbao opened this issue 7 years ago · comments

On Windows, subprocess.Popen process arguments as strings, and problem arises when bytes are passed in (a bytes-like object is required, not 'str').
Python 3.6 now uses UTF-8 for Windows filesystem and console encoding. Using locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] is not appropriate in this case.

I modified the script, changing all bytes to str and using UTF-8 only, and got a working script on my system (Win 7, Python 3.6), but it probably doesn't work on many other systems. Would love to see this tool improved in this regard.

BohwaZ · Answer 1 · Thu Apr 13 2017 16:57:55 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yup no support for anything else than ASCII here, fails on Linux too. This sucks.

maik-s · Answer 2 · Sat Jul 07 2018 15:54:01 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

hey @cfbao i ran into the exact same problem and would appreciate it if you would share your modified script.