Laura Creighton wrote: > 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.
as long as the interpreter prints a warning when it falls back on the default... oh, wait. $ python2.2 welcome.py Welcome to Linköping $ python2.3 welcome.py sys:1: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\xf6' in file welcome.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details Welcome to Linköping $ python2.4 welcome.py sys:1: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\xf6' in file welcome.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details Welcome to Linköping $ python2.5 welcome.py File "welcome.py", line 1 SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xf6' in file /users/fredrik/welcome.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details guess this means that newbies should make sure to run their first program under multiple Python versions... </F>
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