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Title: Change sys.getfilesystemencoding() on Windows to UTF-8
Type: behavior Stage: resolved
Components: Windows Versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.6
process
Status: closed Resolution: fixed
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: steve.dower Nosy List: Decorater, brett.cannon, jkloth, mark.dickinson, ncoghlan, ned.deily, paul.moore, python-dev, steve.dower, tim.golden, vstinner, yan12125, zach.ware
Priority: release blocker Keywords: patch

Created on 2016-08-17 03:49 by steve.dower, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Files
File name Uploaded Description Edit
fsencoding.diff steve.dower, 2016-08-17 03:49
fsencoding.diff vstinner, 2016-08-17 10:52 review
test_cmd_line_unicode.py ncoghlan, 2016-09-05 07:05 Possible new test case for command line Unicode handling
27781_1.patch steve.dower, 2016-09-07 00:26 review
osx_failed_compile.txt mark.dickinson, 2016-09-09 08:38
Messages (24)
msg272899 - (view) Author: Steve Dower (steve.dower) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-08-17 03:49
I've attached my first pass at a patch to change the file system encoding on Windows to UTF-8 and remove use of the *A APIs.

It would be trivial to change the encoding from UTF-8 back to CP_ACP and change the error mode if that's what we decide is better, but my vote is strongly for an encoding that never drops characters when converted from UTF-16.

Discussion is still ongoing on python-ideas, so let's argue about yes/no and utf-8/mbcs there and just discuss the patch here.
msg272900 - (view) Author: Decorater (Decorater) * Date: 2016-08-17 04:48
I personally hate ansi myself so +1 to UTF-8/UTF-16.
msg272916 - (view) Author: STINNER Victor (vstinner) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-08-17 10:32
Would it be acceptable for you to add a new option to switch to UTF-8 in Python 3.6, and discuss later if it's ok to enable it by default?

In the python-ideas threed, you wrote that Windows allow surrogate characters in filenames, but not the UTF-8/strict Python codec. Would it make sense to use UTF-8/surrogatepass codec to avoid any unicode error?
msg272917 - (view) Author: STINNER Victor (vstinner) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-08-17 10:52
Steve Dower: Please don't use git format for diff, or the bug tracker is unable to create reviews. I regenerated the patch.

By the way, you introduced a bug in posix_do_stat(): you added a new "else" in the !MS_WINDOWS path which leads to a compilation error. I fixed it.
msg272935 - (view) Author: Steve Dower (steve.dower) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-08-17 13:19
Thanks for the regen. I don't think git format is the problem as most of my patches are fine, it's probably because it was in a patch queue and so the parent isn't actually a known commit. I haven't tested whether this works without my other console patches but I think it should.

Is there a surrogatepass option? If so, I'll definitely use that, as that'll fix the one remaining edge case.

I suspect we'll have to go to Guido to get a ruling on the default, but I'll add an environment variable to switch.
msg272949 - (view) Author: STINNER Victor (vstinner) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-08-17 14:20
> Is there a surrogatepass option?

I'm talking about error handlers of Python codecs: text.encode('utf8',
'surrogatepass')
msg272950 - (view) Author: STINNER Victor (vstinner) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-08-17 14:22
> I suspect we'll have to go to Guido to get a ruling on the default, but I'll add an environment variable to switch.

If you go in this direction, I would like to follow you for the
UNIX/BSD side to make the switch portable. I was thinking about "-X
utf8" which avoids to change the command line parser.

If we agree on a plan, I would like to write it down as a PEP since I
expect a lot of complains and questions which I would prefer to only
answer once (see for example the length of your thread on python-ideas
where each people repeated the same things multiple times ;-))
msg272961 - (view) Author: Steve Dower (steve.dower) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-08-17 15:40
By portable, do you mean not using an environment variable?

Command line parsing is potentially affected by this on Windows - I'd have to look deeper - as command lines are provided as UTF-16. But we may not ever expose them as bytes.

I don't even know that this matters on the UNIX/BSD side as the file system encoding provided there is correct, no? It's just Windows where the file system encoding used for bytes doesn't match what the file system actually uses.

I was afraid a PEP would be necessary out of this, but I want to see how the python-dev discussion goes first.
msg272962 - (view) Author: STINNER Victor (vstinner) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-08-17 15:44
Steve Dower added the comment:
> By portable, do you mean not using an environment variable?

I mean that "python3 -X utf8" should force sys.getfilesystemencoding()
to UTF-8 on UNIX/BSD, it would ignore the current locale setting.
msg272963 - (view) Author: Steve Dower (steve.dower) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-08-17 15:49
Ah I see, if we end up sticking with MBCS and offering a switch to enable UTF-8. In that case, we'll definitely ensure the flag is the same (but I'm hopeful we will just make the reliable behavior on Windows the default, so it won't matter).
msg274392 - (view) Author: Nick Coghlan (ncoghlan) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-09-05 07:05
I belatedly remembered I've had this new test case hanging around for a while, and never got around to getting it into shape for inclusion in the standard library.

With the prospect of reasonable cross-platform consistency in this area, it could be a good thing to add as part of this PEP.
msg274691 - (view) Author: Steve Dower (steve.dower) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-09-07 00:26
Also see PEP 529 for the latest updates there.

This is likely to be accepted as experimental for 3.6.0b1-3, and we'll commit to either the new default or a compatible default for b4.
msg274887 - (view) Author: Steve Dower (steve.dower) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-09-07 20:51
PEP 529 has been accepted, so this really needs a review now. But since it's experimental and all the tests pass, I'll be committing it shortly anyway and will be tidying up issues during beta.
msg274910 - (view) Author: Steve Dower (steve.dower) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-09-07 23:28
One minor change - I removed the unused definition of Py_FileSystemDefaultDecodeErrors.
msg275063 - (view) Author: Steve Dower (steve.dower) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-09-08 16:43
Thanks for that review, Eryk, but I'm going to defer those to other issues (specifically issue27998 for scandir and we should file a new issue for the symlink concerns).

I've got some more doc updates to do though, and then I'll check in if there are no other concerns.
msg275075 - (view) Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev) (Python triager) Date: 2016-09-08 17:35
New changeset e20c7d8a8187 by Steve Dower in branch 'default':
Issue #27781: Change file system encoding on Windows to UTF-8 (PEP 529)
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e20c7d8a8187
msg275078 - (view) Author: Steve Dower (steve.dower) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-09-08 17:37
This is pushed now - let the bug fixing begin :)
msg275095 - (view) Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev) (Python triager) Date: 2016-09-08 18:11
New changeset faca0730270b by Steve Dower in branch 'default':
Fixes tests broken by issue #27781.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/faca0730270b
msg275289 - (view) Author: Mark Dickinson (mark.dickinson) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-09-09 08:38
It looks as though this change might have broken the compile on OS X. On my OS X 10.9 machine, building from a clean Git checkout of the master branch fails; the tail of the failed build looks like this:

./python.exe -E -S -m sysconfig --generate-posix-vars ;\
	if test $? -ne 0 ; then \
		echo "generate-posix-vars failed" ; \
		rm -f ./pybuilddir.txt ; \
		exit 1 ; \
	fi
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 962, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 951, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 656, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 668, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 782, in get_code
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 842, in _cache_bytecode
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 867, in set_data
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 117, in _write_atomic
ValueError: negative file descriptor
/bin/sh: line 1: 35829 Abort trap: 6           ./python.exe -E -S -m sysconfig --generate-posix-vars
generate-posix-vars failed
make: *** [pybuilddir.txt] Error 1

Full build output attached.
msg275290 - (view) Author: Mark Dickinson (mark.dickinson) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-09-09 08:55
It looks as though this change in posixmodule.c is the cause:

 #ifdef MS_WINDOWS
-        if (path->wide)
-            fd = _wopen(path->wide, flags, mode);
-        else
+        fd = _wopen(path->wide, flags, mode);
 #endif
 #ifdef HAVE_OPENAT
         if (dir_fd != DEFAULT_DIR_FD)
             fd = openat(dir_fd, path->narrow, flags, mode);
         else
-#endif
             fd = open(path->narrow, flags, mode);
+#endif


The move of the final #endif means that `fd` is not defined on OS X. If I move the #endif back again, the compile succeeds.
msg275326 - (view) Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev) (Python triager) Date: 2016-09-09 16:03
New changeset 801634d3c105 by Steve Dower in branch 'default':
Issue #27781: Fixes uninitialized fd when !MS_WINDOWS and !HAVE_OPENAT
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/801634d3c105
msg275331 - (view) Author: Mark Dickinson (mark.dickinson) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-09-09 16:20
That seems to have done the trick. Thanks!
msg279847 - (view) Author: Steve Dower (steve.dower) * (Python committer) Date: 2016-11-01 03:59
Before 3.6.0 beta 4 I need to make this change permanent. From memory, it's just an exception message that needs changing (and PEP 529 becomes final), but I'll review the changeset to be sure.
msg280186 - (view) Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev) (Python triager) Date: 2016-11-07 03:36
New changeset b26c8104e54f by Steve Dower in branch '3.6':
Closes #27781: Removes special cases for the experimental aspect of PEP 529
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b26c8104e54f

New changeset b8233c779ff7 by Steve Dower in branch 'default':
Closes #27781: Removes special cases for the experimental aspect of PEP 529
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b8233c779ff7
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:58:34adminsetgithub: 71968
2016-11-07 03:36:05python-devsetstatus: open -> closed
resolution: fixed
messages: + msg280186

stage: needs patch -> resolved
2016-11-01 03:59:07steve.dowersetpriority: normal -> release blocker
versions: + Python 3.7
nosy: + ned.deily

messages: + msg279847

stage: commit review -> needs patch
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