id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	launchpad_bug
1674	os.path.expanduser (and therefore abspath_expanduser_unicode) fails on Windows if username or home directory contains non-ASCII characters	vikarti	daira	"
attempt to perform setup.py test results in
{{{
argparse 0.9.1 is already the active version in easy-install.pth                                                                                                                                                16:34

Using c:\tahoe\allmydata-tahoe-1.9.1\support\lib\site-packages\argparse-0.9.1-py2.7-win32.egg
Searching for zbase32==1.1.3
Best match: zbase32 1.1.3
Processing zbase32-1.1.3-py2.7.egg
zbase32 1.1.3 is already the active version in easy-install.pth

Using c:\tahoe\allmydata-tahoe-1.9.1\support\lib\site-packages\zbase32-1.1.3-py2.7.egg
Finished processing dependencies for allmydata-tahoe==1.9.1

Setting up environment to run scripts for the current user...
Already done: associate the filetype .pyscript with Python.File for the current user.
Already done: add .pyscript to the user environment variable PATHEXT.
Already done: add .pyw to the user environment variable PATHEXT.
running make_executable
running build
running build_py

Setting up environment to run scripts for the current user...
Already done: associate the filetype .pyscript with Python.File for the current user.
Already done: add .pyscript to the user environment variable PATHEXT.
Already done: add .pyw to the user environment variable PATHEXT.
running trial
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""C:\Tahoe\allmydata-tahoe-1.9.1\support\Scripts\tahoe.pyscript"", line 16, in <module>
    load_entry_point('allmydata-tahoe==1.9.1', 'console_scripts', 'tahoe')()
  File ""C:\Tahoe\allmydata-tahoe-1.9.1\support\Lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c16dev3.egg\pkg_resources.py"", line 318, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File ""C:\Tahoe\allmydata-tahoe-1.9.1\support\Lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c16dev3.egg\pkg_resources.py"", line 2245, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File ""C:\Tahoe\allmydata-tahoe-1.9.1\support\Lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c16dev3.egg\pkg_resources.py"", line 1978, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
  File ""c:\tahoe\allmydata-tahoe-1.9.1\src\allmydata\scripts\runner.py"", line 7, in <module>
    from allmydata.scripts.common import BaseOptions
  File ""c:\tahoe\allmydata-tahoe-1.9.1\src\allmydata\scripts\common.py"", line 19, in <module>
    path = abspath_expanduser_unicode(u""~/.tahoe"")
  File ""c:\tahoe\allmydata-tahoe-1.9.1\src\allmydata\util\fileutil.py"", line 291, in abspath_expanduser_unicode
    path = os.path.expanduser(path)
  File ""C:\Python27\lib\ntpath.py"", line 301, in expanduser
    return userhome + path[i:]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc0 in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

C:\Tahoe\allmydata-tahoe-1.9.1>                                                                                                                                                                                     ^
}}}
Host:Windows 7,Python 2.7(same issue - with 2.6.6)
This problem happens if current username is not ASCII (it is by default on some international localizations of Windows
is this bug with python on windows?"	defect	new	major	1.10.0	code	1.9.1		windows unicode	vikarti@…