[Python-Dev] PEP 263 considered faulty (for some Japanese)

[Guido van Rossum]

> Seems to me there shouldn't be changeable default
> encoding for source files at all. The encoding of
> a source file is a property of the file itself,
> not the interpreter used to read it.

But practicality beats purity.  Some people don't exchange Python code
with others, but they use a lot of code they write and maintain
themselves.  It's hard to explain to them the need of repeating the
encoding in every single module.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)