Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?

[Anders J. Munch]

"Erik Max Francis" <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
> "Anders J. Munch" wrote:
>
> > Source file encoding has direct consequences for program execution.
> > The shebang and Emacs/vim encoding comments do not.
>
> That seems to me a distinction without a difference.  The bangpath
> determines (or at least can determine on some operating systems) which
> interpreter gets run; if you require a certain interpreter version and
> have the bangpath set wrong, your script will bomb.  Certainly that has
> direct consequences for program execution.

In the context of how a Python implementation executes a Python program
the shebang line has no effect whatsoever.

- Anders