Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> writes: > On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 08:17 pm, anatoly techtonik wrote: >> Is there a way to know encoding of string (bytes) literal >> defined in source file? For example, given that source: >> >> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- >> from library import Entry >> Entry("текст") >> >> Is there any way for Entry() constructor to know that >> string "текст" passed into it is the utf-8 string? > ... > The right way to deal with this is to use an actual Unicode string: > > Entry(u"текст") > > and make sure that the file is saved using UTF-8, as the encoding cookie > says.
In order to follow this recommendation, is there an easy way to learn about the "encoding cookie"'s value -- rather than parsing the first two lines of the source file (which may not always be available). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list