It was a bug in the decoding: it raised an unexpected exception, nothing that couldn't be worked around with a check (afaik it didn't crash the interpreter) an

It was a bug in the decoding: it raised an unexpected exception, nothing that couldn't be worked around with a check (afaik it didn't crash the interpreter) and it has been fixed since more than 1 month, just 2 days after it was reported http://bugs.python.org/issue19279 http://bugs.python.org/issue19279 Let's avoid spreading fud, shall we? :)