[Python-checkins] r84354 - peps/trunk/pep-0008.txt
georg.brandl
python-checkins at python.org
Sun Aug 29 21:54:09 CEST 2010
Author: georg.brandl
Date: Sun Aug 29 21:54:09 2010
New Revision: 84354
Log:
Even if utf-8 is the default for Python, it may not be for the editor.
Modified:
peps/trunk/pep-0008.txt
Modified: peps/trunk/pep-0008.txt
==============================================================================
--- peps/trunk/pep-0008.txt (original)
+++ peps/trunk/pep-0008.txt Sun Aug 29 21:54:09 2010
@@ -127,11 +127,11 @@
Latin-1 encoding (a.k.a. ISO-8859-1). For Python 3.0 and beyond,
UTF-8 is preferred over Latin-1, see PEP 3120.
- Files using ASCII (or UTF-8, for Python 3.0) should not have a
- coding cookie. Latin-1 (or UTF-8) should only be used when a
- comment or docstring needs to mention an author name that requires
- Latin-1; otherwise, using \x, \u or \U escapes is the preferred
- way to include non-ASCII data in string literals.
+ Files using ASCII should not have a coding cookie. Latin-1 (or
+ UTF-8) should only be used when a comment or docstring needs to
+ mention an author name that requires Latin-1; otherwise, using
+ \x, \u or \U escapes is the preferred way to include non-ASCII
+ data in string literals.
For Python 3.0 and beyond, the following policy is prescribed for
the standard library (see PEP 3131): All identifiers in the Python
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