During ikiwiki make phase the rst process hangs:  
[ps output](http://dpaste.com/21TQQKT)  
[gdb backtrace 1](http://dpaste.com/0VQBW6D)   
[gdb backtrace 1](http://dpaste.com/1VHS88Y)  
  
working with python 2.7  
[http://dpaste.com/0985A91](http://dpaste.com/0985A91)  
not working with python3.3~3.4  
[http://dpaste.com/0ACNK3W](http://dpaste.com/0ACNK3W)  
  
> Retitled this bug report since it seems to be specific to Python 3.
>
> The `rst` plugin is probably more commonly used with Python 2.
> It seems likely that there is some Python-3-specific bug in `proxy.py`,
> perhaps introduced by [commit 154c4ea
 "properly encode and decode from/to utf8 when sending rpc to ikiwiki"](
http://source.ikiwiki.branchable.com/?p=source.git;a=commitdiff;h=154c4ea9e65d033756330a7f8c5c0fa285380bf0).
>
> I can reproduce this on Debian by installing `python3-docutils`
> and changing the first line of `plugins/proxy.py`, the first
> line of `plugins/pythondemo`, the first line of `plugins/rst`
> and the `system()` call in `t/rst.t` to use `python3` instead
> of `python`. --[[smcv]]

looks like the problem is in proxy.py  
ml = _IkiWikiExtPluginXMLRPCHandler._read(in_fd).decode('utf8')  

without decode('utf8') is working

> That call was introduced
> [[to fix a bug under Python 2|bugs/crashes_in_the_python_proxy_even_if_disabled]]
> so it cannot just be removed, but I've put a proposed branch on
> [[this related bug|bugs/pythonproxy-utf8_again]]. [[!tag patch]] --smcv