> I think your confusion comes from the use of the interactive mode. > It is not. The example provided in the original post will also work when you put then into a python source file. > PEP 263 doesn't really apply to the interactive mode, hence the > behavior in interactive mode is undefined, and may and will change > across Python versions. > The expression passed to eval() cannot be considered an interactive session. > Ideally, interactive mode should assume the terminal's encoding for source > code, but that has not been implemented. > Again, please read the original messages - many of my examples also work when you put them into a python source file. They have nothing to do with terminals.
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