Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment:
On 2008-12-30 13:20, John Machin wrote:
> byte-compiling C:\python26\Lib\site-packages\x9d.py to x9d.pyc
> SyntaxError: ('unknown encoding: cp1252',
> ('C:\\python26\\Lib\\site-packages\\x9d.py', 0, 0, None))
>
> byte-compiling c:\python25\Lib\site-packages\x9d.py to x9d.pyc
> File "c:\python25\Lib\site-packages\x9d.py", line 0
> SyntaxError: ('unknown encoding: cp1252',
> ('c:\\python25\\Lib\\site-packages\\x9d.py', 0, 0, None))
>
> Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12492/x9d.py
FWIW, I've tried that file with Python 2.5 and 2.6 on my machine:
lemburg/tmp> python2.5 ~/bin/pycompile.py x9d.py
compiling x9d.py -> x9d.pyc
XXX <type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'>: unknown encoding: cp1252 (x9d.py, line
0)
lemburg/tmp> python2.6 ~/bin/pycompile.py x9d.py
compiling x9d.py -> x9d.pyc
XXX <type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'>: unknown encoding: cp1252 (x9d.py, line
0)
Note that the line number is wrong in both messages.
It is interesting that simply running the files gives a more correct
error message:
lemburg/tmp> python2.5 x9d.py
File "x9d.py", line 2
SyntaxError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 0: character
maps to <undefined>
lemburg/tmp> python2.6 x9d.py
File "x9d.py", line 2
SyntaxError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 0: character
maps to <undefined>
The character position is wrong again in both messages.
Needless to say that the encoding "cp1252" is *not* unknown. It looks
like compile() causes the decoding error to be overwritten with a
misleading error message.
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nosy: +lemburg
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