On 6/2/07, Rauli Ruohonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (1) Add a mandatory ASCII-only special comment at the beginning of > each module. The comment would continue until the first empty > line and would contain only valid directives matching some > regular expression. Only whitespace is allowed before the > comment. Anything else is a syntax error.
Interesting proposal. I really like it indeed. I wonder how people against "magic" will like it. Although there is a precedent with the first line giving the path to the interpreter. .. but it sounds quite a fair proposal and would solve some of the issues raised here before But i wonder if you would see the security issue with some person sending you diff file that would (among other changes...) do something like this " 1a2 > " (inserted a blank line) Then you would be in trouble again... An alternative would be to require for any comment before any code that purposes to set identifier encoding restrictions etc... to be preceded by a specific character (just like the unix convention with the " ! "). Any comment line starting with this character would be restricted to be ascii only. "%" sounds like a good character for this purpose. Like for example... #!/usr/bin/env python # # %coding: utf-8 # %identifier_charset: 0-1fffff # %string_charset: 0-1fffff # %indentation: unmixed Regards, Guillaume _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
