On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 15:35, Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> >> When a .pyc is renamed to .py, Python (3.1 at least) recognizes and uses >> it... I assume by design, rather than accident, but I don't know the >> history. > > This does not work for me (nor should it): >> touch temp.py >> >> python3 -c "import temp" >> >> rm temp.py >> >> mv temp.pyc temp.py >> >> python3 -c "import temp" >> > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<string>", line 1, in <module> > File "temp.py", line 2 > SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\x95' in file temp.py on line 2, > but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for > details
Try "python temp.py" though. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com