On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 13:54 +0100, Frederic Peters wrote: > > Don't you need to tell Python what charset you are using if you don't > > use ASCII? > > This is PEP 263 <http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html>, its > purpose is to declare the encoding of Python source files but it > actually only applies to strings, not to the code itself. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat test.py > # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- > print 'Hello world' > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python test.py > File "test.py", line 2 > print 'Hello world' > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
As yes.
Quoting from file:///usr/share/doc/python2.3-doc/html/ref/lexical.html:
Python uses the 7-bit ASCII character set for program text. New
in version 2.3: An encoding declaration can be used to indicate
that string literals and comments use an encoding different from
ASCII..
So using anything other than ASCII space, tab, and formfeed is incorrect
(file:///usr/share/doc/python2.3-doc/html/ref/whitespace.html)
Ross
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