[Python-modules-team] Bug#455905: ipython: problems with multi-line utf-8 string

[Tiago Saboga]

Package: ipython
Version: 0.8.1-2
Severity: normal

When using ipython with utf-8 locale I can't define a multi-line
string with triple quotes and multi-byte chars. Session output follows.

Thanks,

Tiago Saboga.

      tiago at sofocles:~$ /usr/bin/ipython 
Python 2.4.4 (#2, Aug 16 2007, 00:34:54) 
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

IPython 0.8.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
?       -> Introduction to IPython's features.
%magic  -> Information about IPython's 'magic' % functions.
help    -> Python's own help system.
object? -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more.

In [1]: a='ç'

In [2]: a=u'ç'

In [3]: a='''ç'''

In [4]: a=u'''ç'''

In [5]: a='''ç
   ...: '''
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError                        Traceback (most recent call last)

/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/IPython/iplib.py in raw_input(self, prompt, continue_prompt)
   2040                         newhist = self.input_hist_raw[-1].rstrip()
   2041                         self.readline.remove_history_item(histlen-1)
-> 2042                         self.readline.replace_history_item(histlen-2,newhist)
   2043                     except AttributeError:
   2044                         pass # re{move,place}_history_item are new in 2.4.

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position 5: ordinal not in range(128)
   ...: 
KeyboardInterrupt

In [5]: a=u'''ç
   ...: '''
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError                        Traceback (most recent call last)

/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/IPython/iplib.py in raw_input(self, prompt, continue_prompt)
   2040                         newhist = self.input_hist_raw[-1].rstrip()
   2041                         self.readline.remove_history_item(histlen-1)
-> 2042                         self.readline.replace_history_item(histlen-2,newhist)
   2043                     except AttributeError:
   2044                         pass # re{move,place}_history_item are new in 2.4.

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)
   ...: 
KeyboardInterrupt

In [6]: a=u"""ç
   ...: """
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError                        Traceback (most recent call last)

/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/IPython/iplib.py in raw_input(self, prompt, continue_prompt)
   2040                         newhist = self.input_hist_raw[-1].rstrip()
   2041                         self.readline.remove_history_item(histlen-1)
-> 2042                         self.readline.replace_history_item(histlen-2,newhist)
   2043                     except AttributeError:
   2044                         pass # re{move,place}_history_item are new in 2.4.

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)
   ...: 
KeyboardInterrupt

In [7]: 


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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22sofocles1 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ipython depends on:
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ii  python-pexpect                2.1-1      Python module for automating inter
ii  python-support                0.7.5      automated rebuilding support for p

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