There exists a problem (maybe a bug?) in pip when using a locale like
`LC_ALL=C` (which is commonly used by CI environments and system
configuration tools such as Puppet), where the PKG-INFO file is decoded
using ascii, raising a UnicodeDecodeError when PKG-INFO contains
non-ASCII characters (such as the n-dash removed by this commit):
> Downloading/unpacking requests from https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/requests/requests-2.5.1.tar.gz
> Downloading requests-2.5.1.tar.gz (443Kb): 443Kb downloaded
> Running setup.py egg_info for package requests
>
> Exception:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 104, in main
> status = self.run(options, args)
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 245, in run
> requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle)
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 1014, in prepare_files
> req_to_install.assert_source_matches_version()
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 359, in assert_source_matches_version
> version = self.installed_version
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 351, in installed_version
> return self.pkg_info()['version']
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 318, in pkg_info
> data = self.egg_info_data('PKG-INFO')
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 261, in egg_info_data
> data = fp.read()
> File "/usr/lib/python3.2/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
> return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 8161: ordinal not in range(128)
I'm not able to reproduce this by installing the package directly, only by
installing another package which depends on it (via `install_requires`).
The command I used was `LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/pip-3.2 install --upgrade ocflib`,
with "pip 1.1 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (python 3.2)" (which
is the packaged version for Debian 7).
Although this should probably be addressed ultimately in pip, replacing
this character in HISTORY is a pain-free and pragmatic way to help
developers and system administrators who may be stuck with old versions
of pip for many years to come.
If a session runs long enough (without constant activity) then the server can
expire the nonce the session has negotiated. If that happens the session will
get a new 401 response which we were immediately returning to the user. A user
would then have to essentially reinitialize session.auth each time they get an
unexpected 401.
Also, there's no need for setattr calls when we can simply assign the
attribute on the instance.
e.g. a cherrypy uploaded file behave like a regular file, except that its name attribute is an int and passing it directly to requests fails because of that
RecentlyUsedContainers are threadsafe so they require a lock and as such
cannot be serialized with pickle directly. To handle it, we need to
convert it to a dictionary first and then back when deserializing.
Fixes#2345
kennethreitz
Cory Benfield