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Giorgio wrote:
Ok.
So, how do you encode .py files? UTF-8?
2010/3/3 Dave Angel <da...@ieee.org>
I personally use Komodo to edit my python source files, and tell it to
use UTF8 encoding. Then I add a encoding line as the second line of the
file. Many times I get lazy, because mostly my source doesn't contain
non-ASCII characters. But if I'm copying characters from an email or
other Unicode source, then I make sure both are set up. The editor will
actually warn me if I try to save a file as ASCII with any 8 bit
characters in it.
Note: unicode is 16 bit characters, at least in CPython
implementation. UTF-8 is an 8 bit encoding of that Unicode, where
there's a direct algorithm to turn 16 or even 32 bit Unicode into 8 bit
characters. They are not the same, although some people use the terms
interchangeably.
Also note: An 8 bit string has no inherent meaning, until you decide
how to decode it into Unicode. Doing explicit decodes is much safer,
rather than assuming some system defaults. And if it happens to contain
only 7 bit characters, it doesn't matter what encoding you specify when
you decode it. Which is why all of us have been so casual about this.
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