Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?

[Anders J. Munch]

"Roman Suzi" <rnd at onego.ru> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Dale Strickland-Clark wrote:
> >Parsing comments is a very poor solution.
> 
> I do not necessary agree. Comments are meta-information. 

Yes, but source file encoding is not meta-information.  It has direct
consequences for program execution.

>And anyway
> first line is
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python

Which, for comparison, has absolutely no effect on the Python
interpreter.

- Anders