Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?

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In article <mailman.1044297249.12820.python-list at python.org>,
 Roman Suzi <rnd at onego.ru> wrote:

> I've tryed vesrion 2.3a of Python and have been surprised by the following
> warning:
> 
> 1.py:6: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\xf7', but no declared 
> encoding

Note the "but no declared encoding"...

> Does it mean, that all that Python software which is not in ASCII will each
> time give such warning? (Thus probably filling up web-server logs or just
> surprising users (like Perl/C libs do when they don't know current locale).
> 
> I think it's madness... There must be other ways to deal with it. I could
> agree that for correct operation IDLE is demanding correct encoding setting
> (and nonetheless workis incorrectly!), but plain scripts should be
> 8-bit clean, without any conditions! (Luckily, it's alpha version, so
> nothing really changed yet.)

>From Misc/NEWS:

- Encoding declarations (PEP 263, phase 1) have been implemented.  A
  comment of the form "# -*- coding: <encodingname> -*-" in the first
  or second line of a Python source file indicates the encoding.


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