Problem with Unicode about envoy

[dbrgn]

Same problem here.

With Python 2.7.3 this example works:

Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 24 2012, 00:00:54) 
[GCC 4.7.0 20120414 (prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import envoy
>>> envoy.run(u'whoami')
<Response [whoami]>

With Python 2.6.8, unicode objects result in an error:

Python 2.6.8 (unknown, Jan  3 2013, 19:07:45) 
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import envoy
>>> envoy.run(u'whoami')
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 532, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 484, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/home/danilo/.virtualenvs/fahrplan26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/envoy/core.py", line 40, in target
    bufsize=0,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 623, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1141, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
TypeError: execve() argument 1 must be encoded string without NULL bytes, not str

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/danilo/.virtualenvs/fahrplan26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/envoy/core.py", line 167, in run
    out, err = cmd.run(data, timeout)
  File "/home/danilo/.virtualenvs/fahrplan26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/envoy/core.py", line 52, in run
    self.returncode = self.process.returncode
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'returncode'

[kennethreitz]

This project is in a bit of a crisis state — it's really useful, and I use it on a daily basis. However, I wrote it in a few afternoons several years ago and haven't touched it since. In order to get the project into a stable state I'm closing all issues and pull requests

Don't take this as aggressive — it's just necessary for the project to make any progress any time soon (it's pretty clear the project is effectively unmaintained at the moment). Great things to come! Please watch the GitHub logs and feel free to re-open this discussion soon. I just need to really it into a good state first.

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