[ python-Bugs-772896 ] unknown encoding -> MemoryError

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Bugs item #772896, was opened at 2003-07-17 03:27
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>Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: Python 2.3
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: George Yoshida (quiver)
>Assigned to: Anthony Baxter (anthonybaxter)
Summary: unknown encoding -> MemoryError

Initial Comment:
If you try to install a program and one of the files 
declares an unknown encoding(like 'UFT-8'),
byte-compiling the file fails and get the message, "Sorry: 
MemoryError: ()"

This message obscures the problem and makes it difficult 
to spot the problem.
In fact, it took me a while to find out that the unknown 
encoding declaration caused the trouble.

The error message needs to be more explicit.

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>Comment By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Date: 2005-10-01 18:52

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I fixed this problem in 2.5.  I am leaving it up to Anthony
whether to backport this to 2.4 or not.

Checked in as:
Misc/NEWS: 1.1383, 1.1193.2.117
Python/pythonrun.c: 2.217, 2.211.2.3
Lib/test/bad_coding.py: 1.1
Lib/test/test_coding.py: 1.1
Parser/parsetok.c: 2.37
Parser/pgenmain.c: 2.32
Parser/tokenizer.c: 2.79


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