Bug 197293 – dev-python/beautifulsoup-3.0.5 version bump fixes sgmllib ascii char issue

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Matteo Azzali (RETIRED) 2007-10-28 12:48:43 UTC]

The bus is that sgmlib checks for ascii characters looking for 256 of them
into sgmlib.py (while ascii chars are 128).
The issue is described even at: http://my.opera.com/knuthy/blog/index.dml/tag/beautifulsoup

and can be fixed with a simple sed line in the ebuild (patch will follow)

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Non-ascii chars generate the error:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)


Expected Results:  
Non-ascii chars do not give errors.

[Comment 1 Matteo Azzali (RETIRED) 2007-10-28 12:50:22 UTC]

Created attachment 134528 [details, diff]
python-2.5.1-r3-ebuild-changes.patch

[Comment 2 Matteo Azzali (RETIRED) 2008-01-03 11:08:58 UTC]

It seems that this is intended in sgmllib.py of python-2.5,
so beautifulsoup (maybe the only package having this issue after python-2.5
update) has been updated (3.0.5) to be compatible with python-2.5.

So beautifulsoup-3.0.4 should depend on <dev-lang/python-2.5 ,
while 3.0.5 bump should be needed to run under python-2.5 or newers.

[Comment 3 Tiziano Müller (RETIRED) 2008-02-23 18:07:20 UTC]

Version bump done. Tested with python-2.4 and 2.5. No need to restrict to python-2.5

Thanks, cheers.