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While running the 2to3 script on the scons codebase, I ran into an
UnicodeDecodeError.
Attached is just the portion of the script that causes the error.
2to3 throws an error on the string regardless of whether the unicode
string literal is prepended on the front.
RefactoringTool: Skipping implicit fixer: buffer
RefactoringTool: Skipping implicit fixer: idioms
RefactoringTool: Skipping implicit fixer: ws_comma
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/local/bin/2to3", line 5, in <module>
 sys.exit(refactor.main())
 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/lib2to3/refactor.py", line 81, in main
 rt.refactor_args(args)
 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/lib2to3/refactor.py", line 188, in
refactor_args
 self.refactor_file(arg)
 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/lib2to3/refactor.py", line 217, in
refactor_file
 input = f.read() + "\n" # Silence certain parse errors
 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/io.py", line 1611, in read
 decoder.decode(self.buffer.read(), final=True))
 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/io.py", line 1199, in decode
 output = self.decoder.decode(input, final=final)
 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/codecs.py", line 300, in decode
 (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 59-60:
invalid data