[Python-Dev] PEP 263 -- Python Source Code Encoding

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"Martin v. Loewis" wrote:
> 
> "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? 

No. This is just an extra step on top of what is proposed in
the PEP to make people aware of the problem in phase 1.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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