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"GW" == Greg Ward writes:

GW> Weird: in the current CVS, certain files in Lib have null GW> bytes (ASCII 0) in them. Install-time byte-compilation GW> complains about this, so "make install" fails. GW> Eg. here's what "less Lib/reconvert.py" shows me me: GW> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GW> #! /usr/bin/env python1.5 GW> r"""Convert old ("regex") regular expressions to new syntax GW> ("re"). GW> When imported as a module, there are two functions, with their GW> own strings: GW> convert(s, syntax=None) -- convert a regex regular GW> expression to re syntax GW> ^@^@^@^@te(s) -- return a quoted string literal [...] GW> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GW> Those "^@"'s are really ASCII 0 -- I checked with "od -c". GW> Am I on drugs here? Probably! A cvs update as of 2 minutes ago showed nothing like this in the file for me. say-hi-to-the-flying-pink-elephants-for-me-ly y'rs, -Barry

[Greg Ward]

Weird: in the current CVS, certain files in Lib have null bytes (ASCII 0) in them. Install-time byte-compilation complains about this, so "make install" fails.

Eg. here's what "less Lib/reconvert.py" shows me me:

------------------------------------------------------------------------ #! /usr/bin/env python1.5

r"""Convert old ("regex") regular expressions to new syntax ("re").

When imported as a module, there are two functions, with their own strings:

convert(s, syntax=None) -- convert a regex regular expression to re syntax

^@^@^@^@te(s) -- return a quoted string literal [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Those "^@"'s are really ASCII 0 -- I checked with "od -c".

Am I on drugs here?

This is a problem with running on a system other than Windows <wink>. I get this output from the attached program: checking .py files in C:\Code\python\Lib checked 165 files checking .py files in C:\Code\python\Lib\test checked 201 files import os dir = os.getcwd() print "checking .py files in", dir count = 0 for fname in os.listdir(dir): if fname.endswith('.py'): count += 1 f = file(fname, 'rb') guts = f.read() i = guts.find('\x00') if i >= 0: print "Whoa! Null byte at offset", i, "in", fname f.close() print "checked", count, "files" no-nulls-under-a-real-os-ly y'rs - tim