[Python-Dev] Memory Error the right error for coding cookie promise violation?

Tue Feb 21 09:28:06 CET 2006

On 2/20/06, Bengt Richter <bokr at oz.net> wrote:
> Perhaps a more informative message would be nice.
> Here's an easy way to trigger it:
>> >>> compile("#-*- coding: ascii -*-\nprint 'ab%c'\n"%0x80, '','exec')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> MemoryError

This was fixed in 2.5, but looks like it wasn't backported. I don't
recall exactly why. -- n
Python 2.5a0 (trunk:42526M, Feb 20 2006, 16:00:48)
>>> compile("#-*- coding: ascii -*-\nprint 'ab%c'\n"%0x80, '','exec')
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "", line 0
SyntaxError: unknown encoding: ascii