[Python-Dev] Py2.3 Todo List

[Martin v. Löwis]

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:

> ... but some of them are also worried about raising the bar
> teaching Python to newbies. They don't want to start the
> Python course explaining advanced features like source code
> encodings.

They don't have to. All they have to do is to arrange IDLE so that it
always stores files as UTF-8 with BOM, and then everything will work
out just fine, with no need of teaching.

Regards,
Martin