Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?

[Roman Suzi]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Dale Strickland-Clark wrote:

>Paul Rubin <phr-n2003b at NOSPAMnightsong.com> wrote:
>
>>Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com> writes:
>>> Just add:
>>> # -*- coding: Latin-1 -*-
>>> 
>>> to the top of your source files and you will be fine.
>>
>>What is this nonsense?  The interpreter is reading comment text now?
>>Yucch!
>
>Absolutely. And what if you get the syntax wrong? How close to correct
>does it have to be before you get told you've got it wrong?
>
>Is everything bracketed by -*- on line 1-2 now parsed? 
>
>Parsing comments is a very poor solution.

I do not necessary agree. Comments are meta-information. And anyway
first line is

#!/usr/bin/python

But having ASCII as default encoding is completely different matter.


Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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