On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 06:57:01AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 06:23:13 -0300 > Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+sams...@kernel.org> wrote: > > > Python's PEP-263 [1] dictates that an script that needs to default to > > UTF-8 encoding has to follow this rule: > > > > 'Python will default to ASCII as standard encoding if no other > > encoding hints are given. > > > > To define a source code encoding, a magic comment must be placed > > into the source files either as first or second line in the file' > > So this is only Python 2, right? Python 3 is UTF8 by default. Given that > Python 2 is EOL in January, is this something we should be concerned > about? Or should we instead be making sure that all the Python we have > in-tree works properly with Python 3 and be done with it?
I recommend just using python 3 everywhere and be done with it as there are already many distros that default to that already. thanks, greg k-h
