New submission from Barry A. Warsaw: In this distribute bug I describe a problem when pip installing mimeparse, which has a setup.py with a BOM. distribute uses execfile() which gets fixed in Python 3 to use a combination of compile(open()) as the fixer.
https://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/349/dont-rely-on-2to3-to-properly-rewrite I think the problem is that the fixer opens the file in text mode, which leaves the BOM as a bogus first character, causing the SyntaxError. Instead, if the fixer opened the file in binary mode, then the BOM would be handled correctly by compile(). ---------- components: 2to3 (2.x to 3.x conversion tool) messages: 179964 nosy: barry priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: 2to3 should rewrite execfile() to open in 'rb' mode versions: Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16965> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
