Issue 18038: Unhelpful error message on invalid encoding specification (original) (raw)

This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/62238

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Created on 2013-05-22 22:43 by Max.Cantor, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg189840 - (view)	Author: Max Cantor (Max.Cantor)	Date: 2013-05-22 22:43
When you specify a nonexistent encoding at the top of a file, like so for example: # -*- coding: fakefakefoobar -*- The following exception occurs: SyntaxError: encoding problem: with BOM This is very unhelpful, especially in cases where you might have made a typo in the encoding.
msg189846 - (view)	Author: Serhiy Storchaka (serhiy.storchaka) *	Date: 2013-05-23 04:31
Here is a patch.
msg189903 - (view)	Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) *	Date: 2013-05-24 09:53
LGTM.
msg189905 - (view)	Author: Serhiy Storchaka (serhiy.storchaka) *	Date: 2013-05-24 10:09
Here is a better patch with tests (see also ).
msg190856 - (view)	Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev)	Date: 2013-06-09 13:59
New changeset 15aa786b723b by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.3': Issue #18038: SyntaxError raised during compilation sources with illegal http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/15aa786b723b New changeset 39e2f0059ee2 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'default': Issue #18038: SyntaxError raised during compilation sources with illegal http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/39e2f0059ee2 New changeset 570b5b4040b1 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '2.7': Issue #18038: SyntaxError raised during compilation sources with illegal http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/570b5b4040b1
msg192075 - (view)	Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev)	Date: 2013-06-30 15:51
New changeset 19bc00996e74 by R David Murray in branch '3.3': #18038: Use non-deprecated assert names in tests. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/19bc00996e74 New changeset 29e7f6a2dc0d by R David Murray in branch 'default': Null merge #18038: Use non-deprecated assert names in tests. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/29e7f6a2dc0d