Steps to reproduce problem: 1. MonetDB-4.10.2, Python 2.3.4, Gentoo Linux 2005.0, LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R 2. Start monetdb mil server 3. Start MapiClient.py 4. Type following command: vars(); 5. Script fails with the following output:
#MapiClient (python) connected to localhost:50000 as max
vars();
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/MapiClient.py", line 77, in ? main(sys.argv) File "/usr/bin/MapiClient.py", line 60, in main res = s.cmd(line) File "/usr/share/MonetDB/python/Mapi.py", line 116, in cmd return self.result() File "/usr/share/MonetDB/python/Mapi.py", line 67, in result while buffer[-len(self.prompt1):] != self.prompt1 and \ UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
Possible patch:
--- MonetDB-4.10.2/src/mapi/clients/python/MapiClient.py.in 2006-01-20 23:36:49.000000000 +0700 +++ MonetDB-4.10.2/src/mapi/clients/python/MapiClient.py.in.fixed 2006-05-14 15:15:19.000000000 +0800 @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ sys.stdout.write(s.prompt) line = fi.readline() while line and line != "quit;\n": - res = s.cmd(line) + res = s.cmd(line).encode('utf-8') print res sys.stdout.write(s.prompt.encode('utf-8')) line = fi.readline()