On Fri, 25 May 2007, [ISO-8859-1] "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: > I don't think there is precedence in Python for such an informational > error message.
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xd1' in file foo.py on line 2, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details > It is not pythonic to give an error in the case > "I know what you want, and I could easily do it, but I don't feel > like doing it, read these ten pages of text to learn more about the > problem". Python is not a DWIM language. That is one of its strengths. It is Pythonic to give an error in the case "I could guess what this means, but it might be a mistake. Please be clear about what you want." -- ?!ng
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