On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > The culprit character is hidden between "Issue #" and "20540" at line 400 of > C:\Python35\Lib\multiprocessing\connection.py. > https://bugs.python.org/issue20540 and > https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/125c24f47f3c refers. > > I'm asking as I've just spent 30 minutes tracking down why my debug code > would bomb when running on 3.5, but not 2.7 or 3.2 through 3.4.
I'm curious as to why this character should bomb your code at all - it's in a comment. Is it that your program was expecting ASCII, or is it something about that particular character? Here's a quick listing of the CPython standard library files that aren't ASCII: rosuav@sikorsky:~/cpython/Lib$ find -name \*.py -not -wholename \*test\* -exec file {} \;|grep UTF-8 ./encodings/punycode.py: Python script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable ./encodings/koi8_t.py: Python script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable ./msilib/__init__.py: Python script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable ./shlex.py: Python script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable ./http/client.py: Python script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable ./distutils/command/bdist_msi.py: Python script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable ./multiprocessing/connection.py: Python script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable ./functools.py: Python script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable ./heapq.py: Python script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable ./email/message.py: Python script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable ./getopt.py: Python script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable ./urllib/request.py: Python script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable ./sre_compile.py: Python script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable ./sqlite3/dbapi2.py: Python script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable ./sqlite3/__init__.py: Python script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable Does your program bomb on any of these? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list