[Python-Dev] PEP 263 considered faulty (for some Japanese)

2002年3月12日 19:44:34 -0500

> Seems to me there shouldn't be changeable default
> encoding for source files at all. The encoding of
> a source file is a property of the file itself,
> not the interpreter used to read it.

But practicality beats purity. Some people don't exchange Python code
with others, but they use a lot of code they write and maintain
themselves. It's hard to explain to them the need of repeating the
encoding in every single module.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)