Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?

[holger krekel]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
>     >> # -*- coding: Latin-1 -*-
> 
>     Paul> What is this nonsense?  The interpreter is reading comment text
>     Paul> now?  Yucch!
> 
> Given that most operating systems don't have files with data forks and
> resource forks, how would you tell the lexical analyzer what the encoding of
> a particular file is?

Well, that's easy, just do 

    from __future__ import encoding as utf8 

:-)

only-10-percent-serious-ly y'rs,

    holger