
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:12:49 +0100 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:18:22 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth@gmail.com> wrote:
#. Python scripts must appear in ``scripts`` and begin with exactly ``b'#!python'`` in order to enjoy script wrapper generation and ``#!python`` rewriting at install time. They may have any or no extension.
For compatibility with file encoding declarations, I believe this needs to be relaxed to starting with '#!python' in the source file encoding, rather than strictly b'#!python' (which will only be the case for ASCII compatible encodings).
I may be wrong, but I am not aware that Python is able to read encoding declarations in a non-ASCII compatible encoding :-)
Also, given the shebang line is for use by the OS, the appropriate encoding should be decided by the OS, not Python conventions. But I would surprised if a shebang-compatible used a non-ASCII encoding by default.
I mean non-ASCII compatible. Regards Antoine.