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

Neal Norwitz nnorwitz at gmail.com
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 "", 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 "", line 1, in File "", line 0 SyntaxError: unknown encoding: ascii

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