PEP 263 status check

[Dieter Maurer]

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes on Thu, 05 Aug 2004 23:49:07 +0200:
> ...
> I personally believe it is too early yet to make lack of
> encoding declarations a syntax error. I'd like to
> reconsider the issue with Python 2.5.

I hope, it will never come...

The declaration is necessary for modules that are distributed
all over the world but superfluous for modules only used locally
(with fixed encoding).

Dieter