Python indentation broken after b'{'

A byte string like b'{ with no } breaks python-indent, resulting in the following indentation:

def parse_license(license):
    if license.startswith(b'{'):
                             print('json license')
                             else:
                             print('regular license')

This does not happen with a regular string ('{') or a raw string (r'{').

Seems like it's actually caused by another plugin (see vim-python/python-syntax#75). vim-python-pep8-indent alone does not trigger the bug, but the two together make it even worse than just python-syntax alone.

[prayatharth]

can i try to fix this ?
i am a beginner but will try my best. :)

[blueyed]

@prayatharth
Sure! Although you should know your way around (debugging) Vimscript already I guess.

As for the issue: there is some special handling of syntax attributes already (https://github.com/blueyed/vim-python-pep8-indent/blob/978a5ccd61a69751a7893d01f41561897127d9dc/indent/python.vim#L72) - likely it does not catch the one from python-syntax or something like that.