New submission from Konstantin Zemlyak: When installing python 3.3 under windows and checking "Compile .py files to byte code after installation" Lib/venv/scripts/nt/pydoc.py gets precompiled as well. This causes venv module to abort with "Error: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x9e in position 0: invalid start byte" while copying scripts from Lib/venv/scripts/nt since only .exe files are copied verbatim, and rest are treated as utf-8 text: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/b20e473157b8/Lib/venv/__init__.py#l314
The solution is to add another exception to compileargs at Tools/msi/msi.py: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/b20e473157b8/Tools/msi/msi.py#l419 This issue doesn't affect non-windows systems, since Lib/venv/scripts/posix doesn't contain .py files. ---------- components: Installation messages: 173955 nosy: zart priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Error: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x9e in position 0: invalid start byte type: behavior versions: Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16340> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
