don't mask encoding errors when decoding a string #6289

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Benjamin Peterson 2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00:00
parent a1cc040828
commit 08a0bbc846
3 changed files with 15 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -21,6 +21,18 @@ class CodingTest(unittest.TestCase):
fp.close()
self.assertRaises(SyntaxError, compile, text, filename, 'exec')
def test_error_from_string(self):
# See http://bugs.python.org/issue6289
input = u"# coding: ascii\n\N{SNOWMAN}".encode('utf-8')
try:
compile(input, "<string>", "exec")
except SyntaxError as e:
expected = "'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 16: " \
"ordinal not in range(128)"
self.assertTrue(str(e).startswith(expected))
else:
self.fail("didn't raise")
def test_main():
test.test_support.run_unittest(CodingTest)