[Python-Dev] Unicode literals in Python 2.7

[Nick Coghlan]

On 29 April 2015 at 06:20, Adam Bartoš <drekin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to somehow tell Python 2.7 to compile a code entered in the
> interactive session with the flag PyCF_SOURCE_IS_UTF8 set? I'm considering
> adding support for Python 2 in my package
> (https://github.com/Drekin/win-unicode-console) and I have run into the fact
> that when u"α" is entered in the interactive session, it results in
> u"\xce\xb1" rather than u"\u03b1". As this seems to be a highly specialized
> question, I'm asking it here.

As far as I am aware, we don't have the equivalent of a "coding
cookie" for the interactive interpreter, so if anyone else knows how
to do it, I'll be learning something too :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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