test_ctypes assumes LANG=C LC_ALL=C

[doko42]

BPO	17754
Nosy	@doko42

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title = 'test_ctypes assumes LANG=C LC_ALL=C'
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[doko42]

this test assumes LANG=C LC_ALL=C

test.test_ctypes (unittest.loader.LoadTestsFailure) ... ERROR

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ERROR: test.test_ctypes (unittest.loader.LoadTestsFailure)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/test/test_ctypes.py", line 11, in load_tests
    skipped, testcases = ctypes.test.get_tests(ctypes.test, "test_*.py", verbosity=0)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/ctypes/test/__init__.py", line 64, in get_tests
    mod = __import__(modname, globals(), locals(), ['*'])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/ctypes/test/test_find.py", line 17, in <module>
    lib_gle = find_library("gle")
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/ctypes/util.py", line 242, in find_library
    return _findSoname_ldconfig(name) or _get_soname(_findLib_gcc(name))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/ctypes/util.py", line 99, in _findLib_gcc
    trace = f.read()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/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 471: ordinal not in range(128)

[doko42]

hmm, looks more an issue in ctypes/util.py. _findLib_gcc should set the environment explicitly as already done in _findSoname_ldconfig.

[python-dev]

New changeset 4f594f9b296a by doko in branch '2.7':

• Issue bpo-17754: Make ctypes.util.find_library() independent of the locale.
  http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4f594f9b296a

[python-dev]

New changeset d6a43a99aea3 by doko in branch '3.3':

• Issue bpo-17754: Make ctypes.util.find_library() independent of the locale.
  http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d6a43a99aea3

New changeset 9a44f12df844 by doko in branch 'default':

• Issue bpo-17754: Make ctypes.util.find_library() independent of the locale.
  http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9a44f12df844

[doko42]

fixed in 2.7, 3.3 and trunk