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Author zart
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Date 2012-10-27.18:42:47
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When installing python 3.3 under windows and checking "Compile .py files to byte code after installation" Lib/venv/scripts/nt/pydoc.py gets precompiled as well. This causes venv module to abort with "Error: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x9e in position 0: invalid start byte" while copying scripts from Lib/venv/scripts/nt since only .exe files are copied verbatim, and rest are treated as utf-8 text: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/b20e473157b8/Lib/venv/__init__.py#l314

The solution is to add another exception to compileargs at Tools/msi/msi.py: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/b20e473157b8/Tools/msi/msi.py#l419

This issue doesn't affect non-windows systems, since Lib/venv/scripts/posix doesn't contain .py files.
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