Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> added the comment: For the record, the problem here isn't new to trunk and is not limited to OS X 10.6; it's the test that's new. It's not a problem for py3k where, as expected, the locale is always set and it seems the tokenizer is a little smarter:
Python 3.2a0 (py3k, Apr 3 2010, 16:02:28) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646) (dot 1)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> eval(b'\xff\x20') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "<string>", line 1 � ^ SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8307> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com