I am in Windows and my terminal isn't utf-8 at the beginning, but I install custom sys.std* objects at runtime and I also install custom readline hook, so the interactive loop gets the input from my stream objects via PyOS_Readline. So when I enter u'α', the tokenizer gets b"u'\xce\xb1'", which is the string encoded in utf-8, and sys.stdin.encoding == 'utf-8'. However, the input is then interpreted as u'\xce\xb1' instead of u'\u03b1'.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:

I suspect the interactive session is *not* always in UTF8. It probably depends on the keyboard mapping of your terminal emulator. I imagine in Windows it's the current code page.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Adam Bartoš <drekin@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, that works for eval. But I want it for code entered during an interactive session.

>>> u'α'
u'\xce\xb1'

The tokenizer gets b"u'\xce\xb1'" by calling PyOS_Readline and it knows it's utf-8 encoded. But the result of evaluation is u'\xce\xb1'. Because of how eval works, I believe that it would work correctly if the PyCF_SOURCE_IS_UTF8 was set, but it is not. That is why I'm asking if there is a way to set it. Also, my naive thought is that it should be always set in the case of interactive session.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> wrote:
Le 29 avr. 2015 10:36, "Adam Bartoš" <drekin@gmail.com> a écrit :
> Why I'm talking about PyCF_SOURCE_IS_UTF8? eval(u"u'\u03b1'") -> u'\u03b1' but eval(u"u'\u03b1'".encode('utf-8')) -> u'\xce\xb1'.

There is a simple option to get this flag: call eval() with unicode, not with encoded bytes.

Victor

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