On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:08:56 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> But using Python 2.7, I get a really bad case of moji-bake: >> >> [steve@ando ~]$ python2.7 -c "print u'ñøλπйж'" ñøλÏйж > > What's 2.7's default source code encoding? I thought it was ascii, but > maybe it's assuming (in the absence of a magic cookie) that it's > Latin-1.
I think that's it! Python 2.7 ought to raise a SyntaxError, since there's no source encoding declared, while Python 3.3 defaults to UTF-8 which is the same as my terminal. If there's a bug, it is that Python 2.7 doesn't raise SyntaxError when called with -c and there are non-ASCII literals in the source. Instead, it seems to be defaulting to Latin-1, hence the moji- bake. Thanks to everyone who responded! -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
