Bug 39259

Summary:	python 2.3.3 serial module gives DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Richard <richgentoo>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Python Gentoo Team <python>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Richard 2004-01-24 09:36:31 UTC

After emerging to Python 2.3.3 and running python-updater, I receive the following warning when I import serial:

DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\xae' in file /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/serial/serialposix.py


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.python
2.import serial
3.

Actual Results:  
>>> import serial
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/serial/__init__.py:15: DeprecationWarning:
Non-ASCII character '\xae' in file
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/serial/serialposix.py on line 55, but no
encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
  from serialposix import *
>>>

Expected Results:  
>>> import serial
>>>

Comment 1 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-24 11:41:56 UTC

thanks for your report, can you please try pyserial-2.0 that is now in x86 stable? this should work with py2.3 now.

Comment 2 Richard 2004-01-24 17:29:26 UTC

pyserial-2.0 seems to work well in Python 2.3.3.  Thanks