[Python-Dev] Null bytes in source code

[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:

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#! /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
[...]
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Those "^@"'s are really ASCII 0 -- I checked with "od -c".

Am I on drugs here?

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