Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings than
UTF-8 (scripts using the coding cookie).
diff --git a/Lib/runpy.py b/Lib/runpy.py
index 4738df3..31e5e55 100644
--- a/Lib/runpy.py
+++ b/Lib/runpy.py
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@
code = read_code(f)
if code is None:
# That didn't work, so try it as normal source code
- with open(fname, "rU") as f:
+ with open(fname, "rb") as f:
code = compile(f.read(), fname, 'exec')
return code
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_runpy.py b/Lib/test/test_runpy.py
index ad3ab39..7ffb6af 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_runpy.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_runpy.py
@@ -405,6 +405,16 @@
msg = "recursion depth exceeded"
self.assertRaisesRegex(RuntimeError, msg, run_path, zip_name)
+ def test_encoding(self):
+ with temp_dir() as script_dir:
+ filename = os.path.join(script_dir, 'script.py')
+ with open(filename, 'w', encoding='latin1') as f:
+ f.write("""
+#coding:latin1
+"non-ASCII: h\xe9"
+""")
+ result = run_path(filename)
+ self.assertEqual(result['__doc__'], "non-ASCII: h\xe9")
def test_main():