Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dist.py b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
index 0a21380..9ad94fb 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
from distutils import log
from distutils.debug import DEBUG
+# Encoding used for the PKG-INFO files
+PKG_INFO_ENCODING = 'utf-8'
+
# Regex to define acceptable Distutils command names. This is not *quite*
# the same as a Python NAME -- I don't allow leading underscores. The fact
# that they're very similar is no coincidence; the default naming scheme is
@@ -1084,23 +1087,23 @@
if self.provides or self.requires or self.obsoletes:
version = '1.1'
- file.write('Metadata-Version: %s\n' % version)
- file.write('Name: %s\n' % self.get_name() )
- file.write('Version: %s\n' % self.get_version() )
- file.write('Summary: %s\n' % self.get_description() )
- file.write('Home-page: %s\n' % self.get_url() )
- file.write('Author: %s\n' % self.get_contact() )
- file.write('Author-email: %s\n' % self.get_contact_email() )
- file.write('License: %s\n' % self.get_license() )
+ self._write_field(file, 'Metadata-Version', version)
+ self._write_field(file, 'Name', self.get_name())
+ self._write_field(file, 'Version', self.get_version())
+ self._write_field(file, 'Summary', self.get_description())
+ self._write_field(file, 'Home-page', self.get_url())
+ self._write_field(file, 'Author', self.get_contact())
+ self._write_field(file, 'Author-email', self.get_contact_email())
+ self._write_field(file, 'License', self.get_license())
if self.download_url:
- file.write('Download-URL: %s\n' % self.download_url)
+ self._write_field(file, 'Download-URL', self.download_url)
- long_desc = rfc822_escape( self.get_long_description() )
- file.write('Description: %s\n' % long_desc)
+ long_desc = rfc822_escape( self.get_long_description())
+ self._write_field(file, 'Description', long_desc)
keywords = string.join( self.get_keywords(), ',')
if keywords:
- file.write('Keywords: %s\n' % keywords )
+ self._write_field(file, 'Keywords', keywords)
self._write_list(file, 'Platform', self.get_platforms())
self._write_list(file, 'Classifier', self.get_classifiers())
@@ -1110,9 +1113,18 @@
self._write_list(file, 'Provides', self.get_provides())
self._write_list(file, 'Obsoletes', self.get_obsoletes())
+ def _write_field(self, file, name, value):
+
+ if isinstance(value, unicode):
+ value = value.encode(PKG_INFO_ENCODING)
+ else:
+ value = str(value)
+ file.write('%s: %s\n' % (name, value))
+
def _write_list (self, file, name, values):
+
for value in values:
- file.write('%s: %s\n' % (name, value))
+ self._write_field(file, name, value)
# -- Metadata query methods ----------------------------------------