[Python-Dev] status of development documentation (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Sat Dec 24 17:08:50 CET 2005

[Samuele Pedroni]

PEP263:

""" To aid with platforms such as Windows, which add Unicode BOM marks to the beginning of Unicode files, the UTF-8 signature '\xef\xbb\xbf' will be interpreted as 'utf-8' encoding as well (even if no magic encoding comment is given). """

So test_pep263 is almost certainly failing for a related reason (and I'll skip noting the irony that this was for the benefit of Windows ;-)). I didn't step through any code under the debugger that looked like it was trying to special-case '\xef\xbb\xbf', so this still needs someone who knows which path(s) the code is supposed to take. I'll help, but I don't have time to drive this.

test_pep263 test test_pep263 failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Code\python\lib\test\test_pep263.py", line 12, in test_pep263 '\xd0\x9f\xd0\xb8\xd1\x82\xd0\xbe\xd0\xbd' AssertionError: '\xc3\xb0\xc3\x89\xc3\x94\xc3\x8f\xc3\x8e' != '\xd0\x9f\xd0\xb8\xd1\x82\xd0\xbe\xd0\xbd'

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