Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?

[Terry Reedy]

"Piet van Oostrum" <piet at cs.uu.nl> wrote in message
news:wzn0kvmi7h.fsf at nono.cs.uu.nl...
> >>>>> Laura Creighton <lac at strakt.com> (LC) wrote:
>
> LC> On more than one occasion I have removed all the comments from
some
> LC> source file before blowing it into PROM.  PROMS are expensive.
I would
> LC> have been mad as hell if after having sunk the budget somebody
told
> LC> me that 'oops, certain comments are special' and that I have to
do
> LC> the job all over again.
>
> Then remove comments, except from the first two lines.

Or stick with 7-bit ASCII chars, as has always been recommended,

Or use whatever mechanism is provided (Guido has promised one) to set
the coding from outside scripts in site/sitepython.py

Terry J. Reedy