[Python-Dev] Python code.interact() and UTF-8 locale

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Victor STINNER wrote:
> RexFi explains me that Python can't guess eval('len(u"é")') charset.

I personally like to see a charset argument for eval() and compile().
exec would not directly support other charsets; you would have to
compile() first to specify a charset.

I have a patch somewhere that does that, but did not get to publish
it yet.

Regards,
Martin