Re: about a head line

2008-04-17 Thread Soltys
Penny Y. pisze: > I saw some scripts have a line at its begin: > > # encoding:gb2312 > > what's this? Why need it? thanks. > Have a look at PEP-0263 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: about a head line

2008-04-17 Thread Fivesheep
On Apr 17, 5:54 pm, "Penny Y." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw some scripts have a line at its begin: > > # encoding:gb2312 > > what's this? Why need it? thanks. declaring of the encoding used in the source file. it's like in html take gb2312 as an example. you will need it if you have some

Re: about a head line

2008-04-17 Thread Dikkie Dik
Penny Y. wrote: > I saw some scripts have a line at its begin: > > # encoding:gb2312 > > what's this? Why need it? thanks. > My guess is that it is the automatic work of some sort of editor that does not understand how encodings work. See what happens if the file was utf-16le encoded, for exam