GeezerVison is showing github.com — gh-158546: Treat undecodable zipapp shebangs as absent by rupayon123 · Pull Request #158555 · python/cpython
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Summary
Treat a shebang line that cannot be decoded using zipapp.shebang_encoding as having no interpreter. Add a regression test for malformed shebang bytes and a Library NEWS entry.
Fixes #158546
Testing
PYTHONPATH=Lib python3.15 -m unittest test.test_zipapp — 36 tests passed.
- Reproduced the reported
UnicodeDecodeError against the unmodified source before the fix.
git diff --check — passed.
The full CPython build/test matrix was not run; this change is limited to the pure-Python zipapp module and its tests.
AI assistance was used to inspect the issue and code, draft the focused change and test, and review the diff. I reproduced the original behavior and ran the tests listed above.
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