[Python-Dev] Non-ASCII characters in test_pep277.py in 2.3 (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Mon, 07 Oct 2002 15:02:10 +0200

Guido van Rossum wrote:

You could, but the whole point of PEP 263 is that the source code encoding is made explicit, so removing the cookie would defeat the purpose. Note that the cookie also implicitly tests the PEP 263 implementation.

I'm still not 100% comfortable with using arbitrary coding cookies in the Python distribution. I like having the feature, but I would prefer if the Python source distribution could be viewed with tools that aren't encoding-aware. On my Red Hat 7.2 Linux box, I have found no programs that understand the UTF8 cookie.

I just checked my SuSE 8.0 XEmacs and it seems that it doesn't come with the UTF-8 coding system installed either.

They all seem to default to Latin-1. Since I also don't really want to assume Latin-1, I'd prefer if we could stick to ASCII, with the exception of tests explicitly needed for PEP 263. I don't want to make testpep277.py an implicit PEP 263 test.

Fine with me. I guess we ought to document this somewhere in the Python core programming style guide (if such a document exists ;-).

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