[Python-modules-team] Bug#780684: python-pip: jessie upgrade: TypeError: compile() expected string without null bytes

[Alexandre Delanoe]

Package: python-pip
Version: 1.5.6-5
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

When I do sudo aptitude update && upgrade (jessie):

python-pip (1.5.6-5) ...
Sorry: TypeError: compile() expected string without null bytes
Sorry: TypeError: compile() expected string without null bytes
Sorry: TypeError: compile() expected string without null bytes
Sorry: TypeError: compile() expected string without null bytes
Sorry: TypeError: compile() expected string without null bytes
Sorry: TypeError: compile() expected string without null bytes
dpkg: error found with python-pip (--configure) :
 error 101
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages python-pip depends on:
ii  ca-certificates       20141019
ii  python                2.7.8-4
ii  python-colorama       0.3.2-1
ii  python-distlib        0.1.9-1
ii  python-html5lib       0.999-3
ii  python-pkg-resources  5.5.1-1
ii  python-requests       2.4.3-4
ii  python-setuptools     5.5.1-1
ii  python-six            1.8.0-1
pn  python:any            <none>

Versions of packages python-pip recommends:
ii  build-essential  11.7
pn  python-dev-all   <none>
ii  python-wheel     0.24.0-1

python-pip suggests no packages.

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