[Jython-users] Jython :: does the embedded PythonInterpreter handle Python Source Code Encodings?

[Menelaos P. <mpe...@gm...>]

I am using *org.python.util.PythonInterpreter* to embed
Jython<http://www.jython.org/>in a Java application. I am using Jython
version
*2.5.2*.

he python script I am interpreting contains UTF-8 literals and so I've
added the Python Source Code Encoding at the top of the script as per
PEP-0263 <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/>:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

My script is compiled as follows:

String script = // load from file as a single String ...
PythonInterpreter pi = new PythonInterpreter();
PyCode code = pi.compile(script);
result = pi.eval(code);

However Jython complains with the following trace:

 [java]     ... : encoding declaration in Unicode string
 [java]     at org.python.core.ParserFacade.prepBufReader(ParserFacade.java:277)
 [java]     at org.python.core.ParserFacade.parseExpressionOrModule(ParserFacade.java:119)
 [java]     at org.python.util.PythonInterpreter.compile(PythonInterpreter.java:259)
 [java]     at org.python.util.PythonInterpreter.compile(PythonInterpreter.java:256)
 [java]     at org.python.util.PythonInterpreter.compile(PythonInterpreter.java:250)