"Peter Otten" <__pete...@web.de> wrote
John Machin wrote:
Your Python 2.x code should be TESTED before you poke 2to3 at it. In
this case just trying to run or import the offending code file would
have given an informative syntax error (you have declared the .py file
to be encoded in UTF-8 but it's not).
The problem is that Python 2.x accepts arbitrary bytes in string
constants.
No error message or warning:
Thanks, Peter. I saw this after I replied to John, so this somewhat
invalidates my reply.
However, John's principle still holds true, and that is the main lesson I
have taken away from this.
Frank
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