Akira Kitada added the comment: With this patch applied, the example from issue15791 works fine.
$ echo "__author__ = u'Michele Orr\xf9'" > foo.py && ./python -c "import foo; print foo.__author__; help(foo)" Michele OrrĂ¹ Help on module foo: NAME foo FILE /tmp/cpython/foo.py DATA __author__ = u'Michele Orr\xf9' AUTHOR Michele OrrĂ¹ ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1065986> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com