Unicode question
Gerhard Häring
gh at ghaering.de
Fri Jul 18 05:51:18 EDT 2003
Gerhard Häring wrote:
> Ricardo Bugalho wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 02:07:13 +0200, Gerhard Häring wrote:
>>
>>>> Gerhard Häring <gh at ghaering.de> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>>>> u"äöü"
>>>>>
>>>>> u'\x84\x94\x81'
>>>>> [this works, but IMO shouldn't]
> [...]
> You'll get warnings if you don't define an encoding (either encoding
> cookie or BOM) and use 8-Bit characters in your source files. These
> warnings will becomome errors in later Python versions.
>
> It's all in the PEP :)
I feel like an idiot now :-( I do get the warnings when I run a Python
script, but I do not get the warnings when I'm using the interactive
prompt. So it's all good (almost). Why not also produce warnings at the
interactive prompt?
-- Gerhard
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