Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: This is not a bug, but intentional.
a is a Unicode string; it does not have an encoding internally (not GBK, not UTF-8). Then, the string being exec'ed also becomes a Unicode string. exec'ing Unicode strings is confusing; try to avoid this. The semantics of exec'ing a Unicode string is that all str (but not unicode) literals get encoded as UTF-8. To see the result you expect, write a = "麓贸" ---------- nosy: +loewis resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10187> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
