[pypy-issue] [issue1762] Pypy 2.3 encoding validation

[Armin Rigo]

Armin Rigo <armin.rigo at gmail.com> added the comment:

Note that a similar issue was closed as invalid about comment lines that contain
null bytes, which CPython handles highly inconsistently.

This issue here is arguably more important, although I'm unsure how including
binary data in a .py file with a specific encoding is supposed to work.  I guess
it works just because, by chance, the iso8859-1 encoding accepts any character
sequence.  If you replaced "iso8859-1" with, say, "utf8", then the example gives
a SyntaxError on CPython and all versions of PyPy.

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