[New-bugs-announce] [issue8168] python3 py_compile does not ignore UTF-8 BOM characters

[Ned Deily]

New submission from Ned Deily <nad at acm.org>:

$ cat bom3.py
# coding: utf-8
print("BOM BOOM!")
$ file bom3.py 
bom3.py: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text
$ python3.1
Python 3.1.1+ (r311:74480, Jan 20 2010, 00:37:31) 
[GCC 4.4.3 20100108 (prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import bom3
BOM BOOM!
>>> import py_compile
>>> py_compile.compile("bom3.py")
  File "bom3.py", line 1
    # coding: utf-8
      ^
SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier

The same test does not fail with python2.6.4.
(Same results on OS X.)

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 101257
nosy: ned.deily
severity: normal
status: open
title: python3 py_compile does not ignore UTF-8 BOM characters
versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2

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