[Python-Dev] PEP 263 -- Python Source Code Encoding (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
27 Feb 2002 10:26:15 +0100

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:

In phase 1, the tokenizer checks the complete file for non-ASCII characters and outputs single warning per file if it doesn't find a coding declaration at the top. Unicode literals continue to use [raw-]unicode-escape as codec.

Do you suggest that in this phase, the declared encoding is not used for anything except to complain? -1. I think people need to gain something from declaring the encoding; what they gain is that Unicode literals work right (i.e. that they really denote the strings that people see on their screen - given the appropriate editor).

Regards, Martin