[Python-3000] Invalid \U escape in source code give hard-to-trace error (original) (raw)

Neal Norwitz nnorwitz at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 08:12:26 CEST 2007

On 7/15/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

When a source file contains a string literal with an out-of-range \U escape (e.g. "\U12345678"), instead of a syntax error pointing to the offending literal, I get this, without any indication of the file or line:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-9: illegal Unicode character This is quite hard to track down. (Both the location of the bad literal in the source file, and the origin of the error in the parser. :-) Can someone come up with a fix?

Take a look at the patch http://python.org/sf/1031213

That might help. I'm not sure if it's the same problem.

I really need to dispose of a bunch of things assigned to me. :-(

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