Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: I can reproduce this on Linux (3.3+ only):
$ name=$(printf "\xff") $ echo "print('Hello, world')" >$name $ ./python $name python: failed to set __main__.__loader__ The issue is in PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags() function, which gets raw char * as the file name (the documentation says about the filesystem encoding (sys.getfilesystemencoding())), but then this name decoded from UTF-8 in set_main_loader(). ---------- components: +Interpreter Core -Windows keywords: +3.3regression nosy: +serhiy.storchaka versions: +Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16218> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com