[Python-3000] PEP 3131 accepted

Mike Klaas mike.klaas at gmail.com
Fri May 25 01:03:30 CEST 2007


On 24-May-07, at 3:33 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>> Alas, the coding directive is not good enough.  Have a look at this:
>>
>>     http://zesty.ca/python/tricky.png
>>
>> That's an image of a text editor containing some Python code.  Can  
>> you
>> tell whether running it (post-PEP-3131) will delete your .bashrc  
>> file?
>
> I would think that it doesn't (i.e. allowed should stay at 0).
>
> Why does os.remove get invoked?

Perhaps a letter in the encoding declaration is non-ascii, nullifying  
the encoding enforcement and allowing a cyrillic 'a' in  allowed = 0?

-Mike




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