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subprocess.Popen.communicate does not encode unicode strings #49540

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beda mannequin opened this issue Feb 17, 2009 · 2 comments
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subprocess.Popen.communicate does not encode unicode strings #49540

beda mannequin opened this issue Feb 17, 2009 · 2 comments
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stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error

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beda mannequin commented Feb 17, 2009

BPO 5290
Nosy @florentx

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title = 'subprocess.Popen.communicate does not encode unicode strings'
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beda mannequin commented Feb 17, 2009

The method subprocess.Popen.communicate (more the underlying
_communicate) writes the input to the stdin stream without encoding,
regardless of it being a unicode string. The result is incorrect
behavior of the running program as it receives 4 bytes for each character.
As simple text program is here:

import subprocess
from base64 import b16encode

command = ["cat"]
p = subprocess.Popen(command, stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
data = u"test text"
o, er = p.communicate(data)
print b16encode(o)

I believe that this issue is closely related to bpo-2683 where this was
fixed for Python 3.0.

@beda beda mannequin added stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error labels Feb 17, 2009
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florentx mannequin commented Apr 1, 2010

AFAICT 2.6 and 2.7 behave correctly.

@florentx florentx mannequin closed this as completed Apr 1, 2010
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