Skip over doc strings.
diff --git a/Lib/compiler/future.py b/Lib/compiler/future.py
index 868b7cb..414e64e 100644
--- a/Lib/compiler/future.py
+++ b/Lib/compiler/future.py
@@ -22,7 +22,14 @@
def visitModule(self, node):
stmt = node.node
+ found_docstring = False
for s in stmt.nodes:
+ # Skip over docstrings
+ if not found_docstring and isinstance(s, ast.Discard) \
+ and isinstance(s.expr, ast.Const) \
+ and isinstance(s.expr.value, str):
+ found_docstring = True
+ continue
if not self.check_stmt(s):
break
@@ -50,7 +57,7 @@
return
if node.modname != "__future__":
return
- raise SyntaxError, "invalid future statement"
+ raise SyntaxError, "invalid future statement " + repr(node)
def find_futures(node):
p1 = FutureParser()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 2791cbe..164edc8 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -393,6 +393,8 @@
Library
-------
+- The compiler package now supports future imports after the module docstring.
+
- Bug #1413790: zipfile now sanitizes absolute archive names that are
not allowed by the specs.