Trouble with source-code encoding

[Alan Kennedy]

Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> However, the pep doesn't list the name of valid  encodings.  What's
> the name for west european encoding?

Unfortunately, there is no way, from code, to get a list of valid
encodings.

You can get a good idea of supported encodings, their names and
various aliases, by looking at the source of 

Lib/encodings/aliases.py

which gives the following list of possible names for the "latin_1"
codec

'8859'           
'cp819'          
'csisolatin1'    
'ibm819'         
'iso8859'        
'iso_8859_1'     
'iso_8859_1_1987'
'iso_ir_100'     
'l1'             
'latin'          
'latin1'         

Any of those should work as your script encoding.

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