Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?

[Bernhard Herzog]

"Anders J. Munch" <andersjm at dancontrol.dk> writes:

> Source file encoding has direct consequences for program execution.
> The shebang and Emacs/vim encoding comments do not.

Some of them already do! The following code won't produce a syntax error
in CPython even though one would expect it to and it will display
correctly in Emacs:

# -*- tab-width:2 -*-

def g():
    a = 1   # four spaces
		b=2     # two tabs


IMO Python shouldn't do this, but for whatever reason it's there.

   Bernhard

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