On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 05:42, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: >> Use the PEP 263 encoding >> declaration <URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/> to let Python >> know the encoding of the program source file. > > While PEPs are valuable, once accepted or rejected they become historical > documents. They don't necessarily document the current behaviour of the > language. > > See here for documentation on encoding declarations: > > http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#encoding-declarations > >
This is the first time that I've read the PEP document regarding Unicode / UTF-8. I see that it mentions that the declaration must be on the second or first line of the file. Is this still true in Python 3? I have been putting it further down (still before all python code, but after some comments) in code that I write (for my own use, not commercial code). -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
