All of brython examples fail in IE8 with error in brython.js

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Load any example in IE8 e.g. http://www.brython.info/gallery/europe.html

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
An example should load correctly, and it works in Firefox.
In IE8 Brython code does not load up and an IE shows the following error 
details:
Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; 
Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; 
Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; InfoPath.3)
Timestamp: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:55:14 UTC

Message: Expected identifier, string or number
Line: 10
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://www.brython.info/src/brython.js

Message: Object expected
Line: 24
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://www.brython.info/gallery/europe.html

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
The same version as on www.brython.info.
OS version - Windows 8 with all updates.

Please provide any additional information below.
N/A

Original issue reported on code.google.com by volodymy...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2014 at 4:57

sgzwiz / brython

All of brython examples fail in IE8 with error in brython.js #106