Bugs item #1115379, was opened at 2005-02-03 14:11 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by loewis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1115379&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Parser/Compiler Group: Python 2.4 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Christoph Zwerschke (cito) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Built-in compile function with PEP 0263 encoding bug Initial Comment: a = 'print "Hello, World"' u = '# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n' + a print compile(a, '<string>', 'exec') # ok print compile(u, '<string>', 'exec') # ok print compile(unicode(a), '<string>', 'exec') # ok print compile(unicode(u), '<string>', 'exec') # error # The last line gives a SystemError. # Think this is a bug. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2005-09-28 07:48 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 If you load the files manually, why is it that you want to decode them to Unicode before compile()ing them? Couldn't you just pass the bytes you read from the file to compile()? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Vágvölgyi Attila (wigy) Date: 2005-09-28 06:29 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=156682 If this special case is a feature, not a bug, than it breaks some symmetry for sure. If I run a script having utf-8 encoding from a file with python script.py then it has to have an encoding declaration. Now if I would like to load the same file manually, decode it to a unicode object, I also have to remove the encoding declaration at the beginning of the file before I can give it to the compile() function. What special advantage comes from the fact that the compiler does not simply ignore encoding declaration nodes from unicode objects? Does this error message catch some possible errors or does it make the compiler code simpler? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Vágvölgyi Attila (wigy) Date: 2005-09-28 06:20 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=156682 If this special case is a feature, not a bug, than it breaks some symmetry for sure. If I run a script having utf-8 encoding from a file with python script.py then it has to have an encoding declaration. Now if I would like to load the same file manually, decode it to a unicode object, I also have to remove the encoding declaration at the beginning of the file before I can give it to the compile() function. What special advantage comes from the fact that the compiler does not simply ignore encoding declaration nodes from unicode objects? Does this error message catch some possible errors or does it make the compiler code simpler? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2005-02-10 01:37 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 There is a bug somewhere, certainly. However, I believe it is in PEP 263, which should point out that unicode strings in compile are only legal if they do *not* contain an encoding declaration, as such strings are implicitly encoded as UTF-8. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1115379&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
