[Python-Dev] Criticism of execfile() removal in Python3

[Nick Coghlan]

On 15 Jun 2014 09:37, "Steve Dower" <Steve.Dower at microsoft.com> wrote:
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> I think the point is that the encoding may be embedded in the file as a
coding comment and there's no obvious way to deal with that.

Opening source files correctly is the intended use case for tokenize.open().

Cheers,
Nick.
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