[Python-3000] BOM handling (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Fri Sep 15 02:02:01 CEST 2006

"Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

On 9/14/06, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote: > So don't save it with a BOM and add a Python coding: directive to the > second line. Python and bash comments just happen to have the same # > delimiter, and if your editor doesn't suck, then it should understand > such a directive.

However, vim and emacs use different coding directive formats. Python understands both, but (AFAIK) they don't understand each other's. So which editor sucks? :-) :-) :-) (3 smileys is a get-out-of-flamewar-free card :-))

Single users will be choosing a single tool. Multiple users will likely use a source repository. Good source repositories will allow for pre or post processing. Or heck, I'm sure that Emacs or Vim can even be tweaked to understand the others encoding declarations. If not, there are more than a dozen source editors that support both, and even some that offer the features I describe.

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