PEP263 and execfile()

[Martin v. Löwis]

"Denis S. Otkidach" <ods at strana.ru> writes:

> What about warnings.filtererrors() in future versions of Python
> when this warning will be turned into error?  I guess it's OK as
> temporal hack but it's not a solution of the problem.
> May be execfile and compile functions should have optional
> encoding parameter?  I'm not sure about execfile, but compile
> must have it.

By the time the warning will be turned into an error, nearly all files
will have an encoding declaration, or only contain ASCII. Then, it
won't be a problem that there is an exception if there is an error in
a file executed with execfile.

Regards,
Martin