[Edu-sig] Defining source code encoding for Python 2.3

Hello, While I rather like this new feature, I think that the current implementation is too rigour. Imagine a student that writes her first script: name = raw_input("What's your name? ") # a russian phrase here print "Hi %s!" % name With Python 2.3a1, she'll get DeprecationWarning. With a future version of Python, this code would cause SyntaxError. Does anyone really think that she must define a source code encoding here? That claim would break any possibility to use Python in schools. We have a lot of troubles with broken i18n support in IDLE and Tkinter, but this would be a total nightmare. Also defining encoding is useless here, since it affects only Unicode literals. Best regards, Kirill Simonov