All Python source is Unicode internally.

Unfortunately, this meant hacking around a silly Python 2 restriction
(can't compile a Unicode string containing an encoding declaration).

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/coverage/execfile.py b/coverage/execfile.py
index 2d85689..942bfd5 100644
--- a/coverage/execfile.py
+++ b/coverage/execfile.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import types
 from coverage.backward import BUILTINS
 from coverage.backward import PYC_MAGIC_NUMBER, imp, importlib_util_find_spec
 from coverage.misc import ExceptionDuringRun, NoCode, NoSource
+from coverage.phystokens import compile_unicode
 from coverage.python import get_python_source
 
 
@@ -182,7 +183,7 @@ def make_code_from_py(filename):
     except (IOError, NoSource):
         raise NoSource("No file to run: '%s'" % filename)
 
-    code = compile(source, filename, "exec")
+    code = compile_unicode(source, filename, "exec")
     return code