On 2/20/06, Bengt Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perhaps a more informative message would be nice.
> Here's an easy way to trigger it:
>
> >>> compile("#-*- coding: ascii -*-\nprint 'ab%c'\n"%0x80, '','exec')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> MemoryError
This was fixed in 2.5, but looks like it wasn't backported. I don't
recall exactly why. -- n
Python 2.5a0 (trunk:42526M, Feb 20 2006, 16:00:48)
>>> compile("#-*- coding: ascii -*-\nprint 'ab%c'\n"%0x80, '','exec')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "", line 0
SyntaxError: unknown encoding: ascii
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