don't mask encoding errors when decoding a string #6289
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_coding.py b/Lib/test/test_coding.py
index e83015e..7ac3af0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_coding.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_coding.py
@@ -21,6 +21,18 @@
fp.close()
self.assertRaises(SyntaxError, compile, text, filename, 'exec')
+ def test_error_from_string(self):
+ # See http://bugs.python.org/issue6289
+ input = u"# coding: ascii\n\N{SNOWMAN}".encode('utf-8')
+ try:
+ compile(input, "<string>", "exec")
+ except SyntaxError as e:
+ expected = "'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 16: " \
+ "ordinal not in range(128)"
+ self.assertTrue(str(e).startswith(expected))
+ else:
+ self.fail("didn't raise")
+
def test_main():
test.test_support.run_unittest(CodingTest)