Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?

[Francois Pinard]

[Chris Liechti]

> "#-*- coding: latin1 -*-" may look nice to a all time vi user but most 
> users are NOT using vi or emacs.

I often read on this list that most people are using Emacs, or vi, or
something else.  The truth might well be that we do not have any real
statistics on this.  Caution suggests that we refrain asserting things like
above, as gratuitous statements undermine the best of argumentations! :-)

P.S. - But if you have dependable numbers to offer, that cover a population
much wider than your co-workers or friends and mine, I presume some of
us would be curious about them! :-)

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard