MemoryError with parser.suite and wrong encoding declaration

[Thomas Heller]

Sylvain Thenault <sylvain.thenault at nospam.logilab.fr> writes:

> Hi there !
> I've noticed the following problem with python >= 2.3 (actually 2.3.4 and
> 2.4):
>
> syt at musca:test$ python
> Python 2.3.4 (#2, Sep 24 2004, 08:39:09)
> [GCC 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-12)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import parser
>>>> parser.suite('# -*- coding: IBO-8859-1 -*-')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> MemoryError
>>>> parser.suite('# -*- coding: ISO-8859-1 -*-')
> <parser.st object at 0xb7e5e060>
>
> Shouldn't parser.suite just ignore the wrong encoding declaration, or at
> least raise a more appropriate exception. IMHO the first solution
> would be better, since that's the behaviour of the (C) python interpreter.

Ignore the wrong declaration?  All Python's that I have (on windows,
at least) raise a SyntaxError:

  File "x.py", line 1
SyntaxError: 'unknown encoding: IBO-8859-1'

See also:

http://www.python.org/sf/979739

Thomas