[Python-Dev] PEP 427: wheel

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:12:49 +0100
Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:18:22 +1000
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > #. Python scripts must appear in ``scripts`` and begin with exactly
> > >    ``b'#!python'`` in order to enjoy script wrapper generation and
> > >    ``#!python`` rewriting at install time.  They may have any or no
> > >    extension.
> > 
> > For compatibility with file encoding declarations, I believe this
> > needs to be relaxed to starting with '#!python' in the source file
> > encoding, rather than strictly b'#!python' (which will only be the
> > case for ASCII compatible encodings).
> 
> I may be wrong, but I am not aware that Python is able to read encoding
> declarations in a non-ASCII compatible encoding :-)
> 
> Also, given the shebang line is for use by the OS, the appropriate
> encoding should be decided by the OS, not Python conventions. But I
> would surprised if a shebang-compatible used a non-ASCII encoding by
> default.

I mean non-ASCII compatible.

Regards

Antoine.