Message12742

Noticed this regression when testing Jython 2.7.2b2 on Linux. See the example below for a demonstration. Works fine with Jython 2.7.0 but seems to fail also with Jython 2.7.1.


Jython 2.7.2b2 (v2.7.2b2:b9b60766cabe, Nov 1 2019, 07:46:45) 
[Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (Oracle Corporation)] on java1.8.0_201
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>>> import sys
>>> sys.path.append('hyv\xe4')
>>> import re       # existing modules can be imported fine
>>> import nonex    # this should fail with ImportError
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 3: unexpected end of data