The Renderer's default Loader now inherits the decode_errors argument.

pystache/renderer.py

@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ class Renderer(object):
             the method should either return None (as dict.get() does) or
             raise an exception.
                 Defaults to constructing a Loader instance with
-            default_encoding passed as the encoding argument.
+            default_encoding and decode_errors passed as the encoding and
+            decode_errors arguments, respectively.
 
           output_encoding: the encoding to use when rendering to a string.
             The argument should be the name of an encoding as a string, for
@@ -93,7 +94,7 @@ class Renderer(object):
             escape = markupsafe.escape if markupsafe else cgi.escape
 
         if loader is None:
-            loader = Loader(encoding=default_encoding)
+            loader = Loader(encoding=default_encoding, decode_errors=decode_errors)
 
         literal = markupsafe.Markup if markupsafe else unicode
 

tests/test_renderer.py

@@ -43,6 +43,17 @@ class RendererInitTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         # Check all attributes for good measure.
         self.assertEquals(actual.__dict__, expected.__dict__)
 
+    def test_loader__default__decode_errors(self):
+        """Test that the default loader inherits the decode_errors."""
+        r = Renderer(decode_errors='foo')
+        actual = r.loader
+
+        expected = Loader(decode_errors='foo')
+        self.assertEquals(actual.decode_errors, expected.decode_errors)
+        # Check all attributes for good measure.
+        self.assertEquals(actual.__dict__, expected.__dict__)
+
+
 
 class RendererTestCase(unittest.TestCase):