[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-603509 ] MemoryError when eval'ing string

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Bugs item #603509, was opened at 2002-09-02 09:56
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Assigned to: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Summary: MemoryError when eval'ing string

Initial Comment:
eval("'label;home;encoding=quoted-printable:r.'")

dies with a bogus MemoryError.  Assigned to Martin 
because this minimal substring dies the same way:

eval("'coding=q'")

Of course the result should be the string

    coding=q

Somehow it looks like parsing a string literal is getting 
mixed up with searching for a source-file encoding.

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