[issue8168] python3 py_compile does not ignore UTF-8 BOM characters

koobs added the comment: Breadcrumb: this was reported against 3.2 and 3.1, but never backported to the latter. -- nosy: +koobs ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue8168] python3 py_compile does not ignore UTF-8 BOM characters

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Fixed in r79068. -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue8168] python3 py_compile does not ignore UTF-8 BOM characters

New submission from Ned Deily : $ cat bom3.py # coding: utf-8 print("BOM BOOM!") $ file bom3.py bom3.py: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text $ python3.1 Python 3.1.1+ (r311:74480, Jan 20 2010, 00:37:31) [GCC 4.4.3 20100108 (prerelease)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for m