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Re: UnicodeEncodeError in compile

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Date Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:08:40 -0500
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On 1/9/2012 11:24 PM, pyscripter@gmail.com wrote:
> Using python 3.2 in Windows 7 I am getting the following:
>
>>> compile('pass', r'c:\temp\工具\module1.py', 'exec')
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'mbcs' codec can't encode characters in position 0--1: invalid character
>
> Can anybody explain why the compile statement tries to convert the unicode filename using mbcs?  I know that sys.getfilesystemencoding returns 'mbcs' in Windows, but I thought that this is not used when unicode file names are provided.

I get the same error running 3.2.2 under IDLE but not when pasting into 
Command Prompt. However, Command Prompt may be cheating by replacing the 
Chinese chars with '??' upon pasting, so that Python never gets them -- 
whereas they appear just fine in IDLE.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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UnicodeEncodeError in compile pyscripter@gmail.com - 2012-01-09 20:24 -0800
  Re: UnicodeEncodeError in compile Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-01-10 03:08 -0500
    Re: UnicodeEncodeError in compile jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2012-01-10 01:42 -0800
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      Re: UnicodeEncodeError in compile jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2012-01-10 04:28 -0800
        Re: UnicodeEncodeError in compile jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2012-01-10 05:43 -0800
          Re: UnicodeEncodeError in compile Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-01-10 19:56 -0500
            Re: UnicodeEncodeError in compile jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2012-01-11 01:29 -0800
            Re: UnicodeEncodeError in compile jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2012-01-10 23:05 -0800
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  Re: UnicodeEncodeError in compile pyscripter@gmail.com - 2012-01-10 02:04 -0800
  Re: UnicodeEncodeError in compile Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-01-10 22:50 -0500
    Re: UnicodeEncodeError in compile pyscripter@gmail.com - 2012-01-11 03:27 -0800
      Re: UnicodeEncodeError in compile Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-01-11 06:45 -0500
        Re: UnicodeEncodeError in compile pyscripter@gmail.com - 2012-01-11 04:14 -0800
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