2.3 encoding parsing bug

[Edward K. Ream]

> Presumably it would also work if you just included a pair of blank
> lines

Inserting two blanks lines to defeat the encoding convention would be very
bad programming style.  Instead of blank lines I would insert:

# first line to defeat Python's encoding convention.
# second line to defeat Python's encoding convention.

Naturally, this is hardly an improvement over a line that explicitly
specifies the encoding.

Regardless of various workarounds, the essence of this situation is that pep
263 drastically changed the Python language.  Indeed, it invalidated a file
format that I as an application designer should have had the right to
define, and _did_ have the right to define until Python 2.3 interfered.  I
am not happy.

Edward
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