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StanFromIreland opened this issue May 15, 2025 · 0 comments
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Cannot make venv on 3.14 when system encoding is not utf-8 #134060

StanFromIreland opened this issue May 15, 2025 · 0 comments
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3.14 bugs and security fixes stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir topic-venv Related to the venv module type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error

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Bug description:

Buildbot fails: https://buildbot.python.org/?#/builders/1764/builds/37/steps/6/logs/stdio

When trying to make a venv:

$ python3.14 -m venv venv
Unable to symlink '/tmp/venv/bin/python' to '/tmp/venv/bin/\U0001d70bthon'
Error: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\U0001d70b' in position 14: ordinal not in range(256)

Results in corrupt venv.

Parent issue: #133677

CPython versions tested on:

3.14

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

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@StanFromIreland StanFromIreland added the type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error label May 15, 2025
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@picnixz picnixz added topic-venv Related to the venv module stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir 3.14 bugs and security fixes labels May 15, 2025
serhiy-storchaka pushed a commit that referenced this issue May 18, 2025
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[3.14] gh-134060: Don't create a certain symlink in venv if platform …
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…does not support it (GH-134061)
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