On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:47:00 +0100, jmfauth <wxjmfa...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12 sep, 10:49, Steven D'Aprano <steve
+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
Even with a source code encoding, you will probably have problems with
source files including \xe2 and other "bad" chars. Unless they happen to
fall inside a quoted string literal, I would expect to get a
SyntaxError.
This is absurd and a complete non sense. The purpose
of a coding directive is to inform the engine, which
is processing a text file, about the "language" it
has to speak. Can be a html, py or tex file.
If you have problem, it's probably a mismatch between
your coding directive and the real coding of the
file. Typical case: ascii/utf-8 without signature.
Now read what Steven wrote again. The issue is that the program contains
characters that are syntactically illegal. The "engine" can be perfectly
correctly translating a character as a smart quote or a non breaking space
or an e-umlaut or whatever, but that doesn't make the character legal!
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