[Python-Dev] Unicode source code

[Just van Rossum]

I wrote:
> Hm. What I'm looking into now is to simply define a PyCompilerFlags
> flag called PyCF_SOURCE_IS_UTF8. eval() and compile() will then
> convert a unicode string to utf-8 and set this flag. This seems a
> very low-impact solution. Does this make sense?

Whether it makes sense I don't know <wink>, but it _does_ work. I've
uploaded a patch, including test for eval() and compile():

  http://python.org/sf/683515

Just