improve io mocking

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 - Inherited members are now hidden by default if the base class is not part of the documentation.
   Please make yourself heard in https://github.com/mitmproxy/pdoc/issues/715 if you relied on the old behavior.
   ([#748](https://github.com/mitmproxy/pdoc/pull/748), @mhils)
+- Improve mocking of `sys.stdin`, `sys.stdout`, and `sys.stderr` to fix runtime errors with some packages.
 
 ## 2024-09-11: pdoc 14.7.0
 

pdoc/extract.py

@@ -204,9 +204,9 @@ def mock_some_common_side_effects():
     with (
         patch("subprocess.Popen", new=_PdocDefusedPopen),
         patch("os.startfile", new=_noop, create=True),
-        patch("sys.stdout", new=io.StringIO()),
-        patch("sys.stderr", new=io.StringIO()),
-        patch("sys.stdin", new=io.StringIO()),
+        patch("sys.stdout", new=io.TextIOWrapper(io.BytesIO())),
+        patch("sys.stderr", new=io.TextIOWrapper(io.BytesIO())),
+        patch("sys.stdin", new=io.TextIOWrapper(io.BytesIO())),
     ):
         yield
 

test/test_extract.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import pytest
 
 from pdoc.extract import invalidate_caches
+from pdoc.extract import mock_some_common_side_effects
 from pdoc.extract import module_mtime
 from pdoc.extract import parse_spec
 from pdoc.extract import walk_specs
@@ -137,3 +138,10 @@ def raise_(*_):
     monkeypatch.setattr(importlib, "reload", raise_)
     with pytest.warns(UserWarning, match="Error reloading"):
         invalidate_caches("pdoc.render_helpers")
+
+
+def test_mock_sideeffects():
+    """https://github.com/mitmproxy/pdoc/issues/745"""
+    with mock_some_common_side_effects():
+        import sys
+        sys.stdout.reconfigure(encoding='utf-8')