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Author ita1024
Recipients arigo, benjamin.peterson, georg.brandl, ita1024, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy
Date 2014-05-10.22:42:22
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Do not touch that please!!!!

The null bytes are already rejected when forbidden by the encoding (utf-8 for example).

Null byte characters in comments are perfectly valid in ISO8859-1 encoding, and a few scripts depend on them:
http://ftp.waf.io/pub/release/waf-1.7.16

Parsing the commented lines is also likely to slow down the parser, so keep your hands of it please! There are too many regressions already! http://bugs.python.org/issue21086
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