commit 4b00307425bb3219f269a13ba5a9526903d21ce8
author Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> Tue Mar 16 13:19:21 2010 +0000
committer Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> Tue Mar 16 13:19:21 2010 +0000
tree 8731e9ad5b15c88f637daad50f3b5bcc51ca1a07
parent 09c86afb1e3b2f1af8a03f77f2dd146429f56add

Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.

Lib/compileall.py

diff --git a/Lib/compileall.py b/Lib/compileall.py
index c3bf25a..eb5e24b 100644
--- a/Lib/compileall.py
+++ b/Lib/compileall.py
@@ -104,7 +104,10 @@
                     print('*** Error compiling', fullname, '...')
                 else:
                     print('*** ', end='')
-                print(err.msg)
+                # escape non-printable characters in msg
+                msg = err.msg.encode(sys.stdout.encoding, errors='backslashreplace')
+                msg = msg.decode(sys.stdout.encoding)
+                print(msg)
                 success = 0
             except (SyntaxError, UnicodeError, IOError) as e:
                 if quiet: