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Author Raúl Núñez de Arenas
Recipients Raúl Núñez de Arenas, docs@python
Date 2016-02-21.15:35:43
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According to the documentation, if the 'compile' built-in function encounters NUL bytes in the compiled source, it raises TypeError, but this is not true:

>>> source = '\u0000'
>>> compile(source, '', 'single')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: source code string cannot contain null bytes

It raises ValueError, not TypeError. And IMHO, it's the proper exception to raise...
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2016-02-21 15:35:43Raúl Núñez de Arenassetrecipients: + Raúl Núñez de Arenas, docs@python
2016-02-21 15:35:43Raúl Núñez de Arenassetmessageid: <1456068943.64.0.547733660691.issue26401@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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