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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients ppperry, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy
Date 2016-06-11.04:38:11
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SystemError is serious bug. Please open separate issue for this.

> Why does compile not support null bytes in the first place?

Due to implementation detail of CPython tokenizer. I uses NUL-terminated C strings.

Yet one possible exception: MemoryError. I agree that the long tuple should be replaced by Exception.
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2016-06-11 04:38:12serhiy.storchakasetrecipients: + serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, ppperry
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