[python-committers] Deny nonbreaking spaces in the precommit script?

[Nick Coghlan]

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Michael Foord <michael at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> On 08/11/2010 12:53, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>
>> [snip...]
>> Non-breaking spaces are legal in utf-8 encoded Python source files.
>> While including them accidentally is less than ideal, it is perfectly
>> valid to include them deliberately. Trying to design an automated
>> check that can make a reasonable guess at intent is going to require
>> far more effort than is needed.
>>
>
> Is it valid though? Standard library rules are ascii only (as referenced by
> Guido in this thread). If you need the characters in a string literal you
> must escape them.

Nope - those are the "few specific encoding test cases" he mentioned
in that email. They take advantage of the utf-8 encoding of the source
files these days.

Cheers,
Nick.

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