Issue 4628: No universal newline support for compile() when using bytes (original) (raw)

Passing in bytes to compile() works well for letting the parser handle the decoding of a file when an encoding is specified, but it doesn't take care of universal newlines::

source = b'a = 1\r\nb = 2\r\n' compile(source, '', 'exec') Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "", line 1 a = 1 ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax