'python -U' breaks eval/exec

[mwhudson]

BPO	207608
Nosy	@mwhudson, @malemburg, @gvanrossum, @tim-one

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GitHub fields: ```python assignee = 'https://github.com/malemburg' closed_at = created_at = labels = [] title = "'python -U' breaks eval/exec" updated_at = user = 'https://github.com/mwhudson' ``` bugs.python.org fields: ```python activity = actor = 'nobody' assignee = 'lemburg' closed = True closed_date = None closer = None components = ['None'] creation = creator = 'mwh' dependencies = [] files = [] hgrepos = [] issue_num = 207608 keywords = [] message_count = 4.0 messages = ['1', '2', '3', '4'] nosy_count = 5.0 nosy_names = ['mwh', 'lemburg', 'gvanrossum', 'tim.peters', 'nobody'] pr_nums = [] priority = 'low' resolution = 'duplicate' stage = None status = 'closed' superseder = None type = None url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue207608' versions = [] ```

[mwhudson]

Freshly built python:

[mwh21@atrus build]$ PYTHONSTARTUP= ./python -U   
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Python 1.6a2 (#1, Jun 17 2000, 00:21:58)  [GCC 2.95.1 19990816/Linux (release)] on linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
Copyright 1995-2000 Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)
>>> eval("1")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: eval() argument 1 must be string or code object

(this is also why the import site fails).

exec is also broken.

[gvanrossum]

eval and exec need to support Unicode objects. This may be hard, and since -U is mostly experimental, I've given it a low priority.

[tim-one]

Copied to Jitterbug on python.org, where it's bug 375. Closed here.

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