ShareableList cannot safely handle multibyte utf-8 characters

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
operating-systems

Research direction

Start with shareablelist_mwe.py, the minimum example attached to the issue, to reproduce the multibyte UTF-8 behavior. Review the linked gh-123159 PR and the ShareableList implementation it changes; done means the example no longer triggers unsafe handling of multibyte UTF-8 characters.

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Description

3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 stdlib type-bug
BPO 44170
Nosy @akulakov, @huwcbjones
PRs
  • python/cpython#26328
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    Files
  • shareablelist_mwe.py: Minimum working example to trigger observed behaviour
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    GitHub fields:

    assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2021-05-18.11:12:09.372>
labels = ['3.8', 'type-bug', 'library']
title = 'ShareableList cannot safely handle multibyte utf-8 characters'
updated_at = <Date 2021-12-09.06:21:18.650>
user = 'https://github.com/huwcbjones'

    bugs.python.org fields:

    activity = <Date 2021-12-09.06:21:18.650>
actor = 'andrei.avk'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2021-05-18.11:12:09.372>
creator = 'huwcbjones'
dependencies = []
files = ['50049']
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 44170
keywords = ['patch']
message_count = 4.0
messages = ['393868', '393869', '408074', '408075']
nosy_count = 3.0
nosy_names = ['python-dev', 'andrei.avk', 'huwcbjones']
pr_nums = ['26328']
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'patch review'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue44170'
versions = ['Python 3.8']

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