I have never seen a module where the -*- coding -*- is not the same as the docstring, either. And the greatest number of times I have seen this is where people are using some company-wide tool, possibly third-party and possibly to integrate with java code -- to extract the docstrings, and also have a requirement that the docstring contains the name of the person who wrote, and or modified the code.
Indeed, in the matter of encoding, I wish that python would guess a whole lot more. One of the most common 'first python programs' that non-computer people write is 'my phonelist manager' and another is 'my cd collection manager'. I think that they have plenty enough to worry about without needing to find out about encodings before their first python program runs. Most places _have_ a locale sort of setting, and I would be in favour of trying whatever is there when encountering something that is not ascii. Laura _______________________________________________ Doc-SIG maillist - Doc-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/doc-sig
