[Python-Dev] status of development documentation

[Tim Peters]

[Samuele Pedroni]
> PEP263:
>
> """
>      To aid with platforms such as Windows, which add Unicode BOM marks
>      to the beginning of Unicode files, the UTF-8 signature
>      '\xef\xbb\xbf' will be interpreted as 'utf-8' encoding as well
>      (even if no magic encoding comment is given).
> """

So test_pep263 is almost certainly failing for a related reason (and
I'll skip noting the irony that this was for the benefit of Windows
;-)).  I didn't step through any code under the debugger that looked
like it was _trying_ to special-case '\xef\xbb\xbf', so this still
needs someone who knows which path(s) the code is supposed to take. 
I'll help, but I don't have time to drive this.

test_pep263
test test_pep263 failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Code\python\lib\test\test_pep263.py", line 12, in test_pep263
    '\xd0\x9f\xd0\xb8\xd1\x82\xd0\xbe\xd0\xbd'
AssertionError: '\xc3\xb0\xc3\x89\xc3\x94\xc3\x8f\xc3\x8e' !=
'\xd0\x9f\xd0\xb8\xd1\x82\xd0\xbe\xd0\xbd'