On 15 November 2015 at 07:23, Stephen J. Turnbull <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't see any good reason for allowing non-ASCII-compatible > encodings in the reference CPython interpreter.
>From PEP 263: Any encoding which allows processing the first two lines in the way indicated above is allowed as source code encoding, this includes ASCII compatible encodings as well as certain multi-byte encodings such as Shift_JIS. It does not include encodings which use two or more bytes for all characters like e.g. UTF-16. The reason for this is to keep the encoding detection algorithm in the tokenizer simple. So this pretty much confirms that double-byte encodings are not valid for Python source files. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com