On 7/15/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When a source file contains a string literal with an out-of-range \U > escape (e.g. "\U12345678"), instead of a syntax error pointing to the > offending literal, I get this, without any indication of the file or > line: > > UnicodeDecodeError: 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in > position 0-9: illegal Unicode character > > This is quite hard to track down. (Both the location of the bad > literal in the source file, and the origin of the error in the parser. > :-) Can someone come up with a fix?
Take a look at the patch http://python.org/sf/1031213 That might help. I'm not sure if it's the same problem. I really need to dispose of a bunch of things assigned to me. :-( n _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
