[Python-Dev] RE: Defining Unicode Literal Encodings
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik@pythonware.com
Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:44:36 +0200
tim wrote:
> [Guido]
> > Hm, then the directive would syntactically have to *precede* the
> > docstring. That currently doesn't work -- the docstring may only be
> > preceded by blank lines and comments. Lots of tools for processing
> > docstrings already have this built into them. Is it worth breaking
> > them so that editors can remain stupid?
>
> No.
that's why the "directive" statement shouldn't be used as
an encoding directive.
(and since I don't see any other use for it, that's also why
the "directive" statement doesn't belong in Python at all ;-)
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