[Python-Dev] Non-ASCII characters in test_pep277.py in 2.3

[Guido van Rossum]

> > I'm still not 100% comfortable with using arbitrary coding cookies in
> > the Python distribution.  I like having the feature, but I would
> > prefer if the Python source distribution could be viewed with tools
> > that aren't encoding-aware.  On my Red Hat 7.2 Linux box, I have found
> > no programs that understand the UTF8 cookie. 
> 
> I just checked my SuSE 8.0 XEmacs and it seems that it doesn't
> come with the UTF-8 coding system installed either.
> 
> > They all seem to default
> > to Latin-1.  Since I also don't really want to assume Latin-1, I'd
> > prefer if we could stick to ASCII, with the exception of tests
> > explicitly needed for PEP 263.  I don't want to make test_pep277.py an
> > implicit PEP 263 test.
> 
> Fine with me. I guess we ought to document this somewhere in the
> Python core programming style guide (if such a document exists ;-).

I've added this to PEP 8.

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