On 1/25/2014 2:13 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 4:56 AM, Peter Pearson <ppearson@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
$ python2.7 -c "import sys; print(sys.stdin.encoding)"
UTF-8
This isn't from stdin, though, it's about the interpretation of the
bytes of source code without a magic cookie.
According to PEP 263 [1], the default encoding should have become
"ascii" as of Python 2.5. That's what puzzles me.
I believe it is actually (but unofficially) latin-1 so that latin-1
accented chars can be used in identifiers even though only ascii is
officially supported.
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