Multibyte Character Surport for Python

[Gerhard Häring]

Martin v. Loewis wrote in comp.lang.python:
> More often, you find the position that Python source code should be
> restricted to UTF-8, period.

That's what I'd prefer to see rather sooner than later.

> The counter-position to that is: what about existing code,

recode(1)

> and what about people who don't have UTF-8 editors?

http://www.vim.org/, http://www.xemacs.org/ And certainly the
commercial Python IDEs would support this very soon, too.

Gerhard
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reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))