[Python-Dev] PEP 263 -- Python Source Code Encoding

2002年2月27日 18:36:39 +0100

Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> >> Python uses the 7-bit ASCII character set for program text and string
> >> literals. 8-bit characters may be used in string literals and
> >> comments but their interpretation is platform dependent; the proper
> >> way to insert 8-bit characters in string literals is by using octal
> >> or hexadecimal escape sequences.
>> mal> It's a fact of life that users don't read reference manuals, but
> mal> simply write programs and feel good if they happen to work :-)
>> Perhaps a warning should be emitted by the compiler if a plain string
> literal is found that contains 8-bit characters. Better yet, perhaps Neal
> can add this to PyChecker if he hasn't already...

See the PEP: this is what phase 1 will do; phase 2 won't accept such
a file without an explicit encoding declaration.
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