[Python-Dev] test_ucn errors ?

Guido van Rossum guido@digicool.com
Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:21:28 -0500


> I'm currently seeing a failure in test_ucn:
> 
> test test_ucn crashed -- exceptions.UnicodeError: Unicode-Escape decoding
> error: Illegal Unicode character
> 
> It looks like one of the unicode literals in test_ucn is invalid, but it's
> damned hard to pin down which:

Feels to me like there's a bug in the string literal processing that
makes *any* string literal containing \N{...} fail during code
generation.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)