commit 77b92b15a5e5c84b91d3fd9d02f63db432fa8903
author Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Sat Sep 08 13:52:59 2018 -0700
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Sat Sep 08 13:52:59 2018 -0700
tree d69e332e75231c5c265166ab5ebdb4886f07b61c
parent 9835696ec4c57a9a30f1c11cfb4c5d3e121bf97c

bpo-34421 avoid unicode error in distutils logging (GH-8799)


This caused installation errors in some cases on Windows.
Patch by Julien Malard.
(cherry picked from commit 0afada163c7ef25c3a9d46ed445481fb69f2ecaf)

Co-authored-by: Julien Malard <julien.malard@mail.mcgill.ca>

Lib/distutils/log.py

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/log.py b/Lib/distutils/log.py
index b301a83..3a6602b 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/log.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/log.py
@@ -31,7 +31,10 @@
                 # emulate backslashreplace error handler
                 encoding = stream.encoding
                 msg = msg.encode(encoding, "backslashreplace").decode(encoding)
-            stream.write('%s\n' % msg)
+            try:
+                stream.write('%s\n' % msg)
+            except UnicodeEncodeError:
+                stream.write('%s\n' % msg.encode('unicode-escape').decode('ascii'))
             stream.flush()
 
     def log(self, level, msg, *args):