From: Stefan Behnel <scoder@users.berlios.de>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:38:53 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: do not check identifiers for decodability
X-Git-Tag: 0.13.beta0~2^2~121^2~73
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b0ed60f9f0f3993faeef04636885a666426ba048;p=cython.git

do not check identifiers for decodability
---

diff --git a/Cython/Compiler/ExprNodes.py b/Cython/Compiler/ExprNodes.py
index ff0ad067..20d54391 100644
--- a/Cython/Compiler/ExprNodes.py
+++ b/Cython/Compiler/ExprNodes.py
@@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ class StringNode(PyConstNode):
     # A Python str object, i.e. a byte string in Python 2.x and a
     # unicode string in Python 3.x
     #
-    # value          BytesLiteral
+    # value          BytesLiteral or EncodedString
     # is_identifier  boolean
 
     type = Builtin.str_type
@@ -919,11 +919,12 @@ class StringNode(PyConstNode):
             self.check_for_coercion_error(dst_type, fail=True)
 
         # this will be a unicode string in Py3, so make sure we can decode it
-        encoding = self.value.encoding or 'UTF-8'
-        try:
-            self.value.decode(encoding)
-        except UnicodeDecodeError:
-            error(self.pos, "String decoding as '%s' failed. Consider using a byte string or unicode string explicitly, or adjust the source code encoding." % encoding)
+        if not self.is_identifier:
+            encoding = self.value.encoding or 'UTF-8'
+            try:
+                self.value.decode(encoding)
+            except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                error(self.pos, "String decoding as '%s' failed. Consider using a byte string or unicode string explicitly, or adjust the source code encoding." % encoding)
 
         return self