Proposal: require 7-bit source str's
Peter Otten
__peter__ at web.de
Thu Aug 5 16:44:30 EDT 2004
Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> Now that the '-*- coding: <charset> -*-' feature has arrived,
> I'd like to see an addition:
>
> # -*- str7bit:True -*-
>
> After the source file has been converted to Unicode, cause a parse
> error if a non-u'' string contains a non-7bit source character.
Could
# -*- coding: ascii -*-
be sufficient? Why would you reintroduce ambiguity with your s-prefixed
strings? The long-term goal would be unicode throughout, IMHO.
Peter
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