[Python-3000] Support for PEP 3131 (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Thu May 24 17:39:12 CEST 2007

Steve Howell writes:

Then, for all the other classes of users (Dutch tax lawyer who still doesn't want Sanskrit, etc.), do you advocate having multiple convenient ways to specify their desired character set (command line flag, env setting, magic directive at top of file, etc.), or do you want the "one true way"?

-1 on magic directive. That delegates the decision to the file. That's not what we want here.

+1 on "command line only". Ie, force the user to redefine the Python command with an alias or something if they want to set a different default from site policy.

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