[Python-Dev] What does a double coding cookie mean? (original) (raw)

Serhiy Storchaka storchaka at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 08:04:06 EDT 2016


On 17.03.16 02:29, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I've updated the PEP. Please review. I decided not to update the Unicode howto (the thing is too obscure). Serhiy, you're probably in a better position to fix the code looking for cookies to pick the first one if there are two on the same line (or do whatever you think should be done there).

http://bugs.python.org/issue26581

Should we recommend that everyone use tokenize.detectencoding()?

Likely. However the interface of tokenize.detect_encoding() is not very simple.



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