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Author barry
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Date 2013-01-14.18:24:06
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In this distribute bug I describe a problem when pip installing mimeparse, which has a setup.py with a BOM.  distribute uses execfile() which gets fixed in Python 3 to use a combination of compile(open()) as the fixer.

https://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/349/dont-rely-on-2to3-to-properly-rewrite

I think the problem is that the fixer opens the file in text mode, which leaves the BOM as a bogus first character, causing the SyntaxError.  Instead, if the fixer opened the file in binary mode, then the BOM would be handled correctly by compile().
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