2.3 encoding parsing bug

[Thomas Heller]

"Edward K. Ream" <edreamleo at charter.net> writes:

> The documentation for encoding lines at
>
> C:\Python23\Doc\Python-Docs-2.3.1\whatsnew\section-encodings.html
>
> states:
>
> "Encodings are declared by including a specially formatted comment in the
> first or second line of the source file."
>
> In fact, contrary to the implication, the Python 2.3 parser does not look
> for lines of the form:
>
> # -*- coding: <encoding> -*-
>
> For example, Python improperly scans the following line for an encoding
>
> #@+leo-ver=4-encoding=iso-8859-1.
>
> and reports that iso-8859-1. (note trailing dot) is an invalid encoding!
>
> The workaround for my app is to precede this line with the following line:
>
> # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
>
> This makes Python 2.3 happy.
>
> To make myself perfectly clear: Python has absolutely no right to complain
> about comment lines that do not have the form:
>
> # -*- coding: <encoding> -*-
>

You should probably file a bug report for this.

Thomas