How lovely ;-)  

>>> compile(chr(0), '', 'eval')  # 2.7, chr(0) is byte
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in <module>
    compile(chr(0), '', 'eval')
TypeError: compile() expected string without null bytes

>>> compile(chr(0), '', 'eval')  # 3.4, chr(0) is unichar
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#25>", line 1, in <module>
    compile(chr(0), '', 'eval')
ValueError: source code string cannot contain null bytes
>>> compile(bytes(1), '', 'eval')  # == 2.7 chr(0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#27>", line 1, in <module>
    compile(bytes(1), '', 'eval')
ValueError: source code string cannot contain null bytes

I almost think the long tuple should be replaced by Exception.