I am very busy with normal work this week. However I’ll attempt to add a pr with your (Victor”s) suggestion. Sent from my iPhone > On 29 Feb 2020, at 23:36, STINNER Victor <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: > >  > STINNER Victor <vstinner@python.org> added the comment: > >> File "/home/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.aixtools-aix-power6/build/Lib/test/test_pkgutil.py", line 249, in test_name_resolution >> os.makedirs(d, exist_ok=True) > (...) >> UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 17-19: ordinal not in range(256) > > The test should be modified to skip the current uw value in the loop ("continue") if the filesystem encoding cannot encode the Unicode string (catch UnicodeEncodeError on the makedirs() call). > > ---------- > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> > <https://bugs.python.org/issue12915> > _______________________________________ >