Éric Araujo added the comment: Anatoly > b'Русское имя' is not a valid syntax construct in Python 3 even though I have > correct 'coding: utf-8' header and expect characters to be utf-8 bytes.
David > The byte string vs the coding cookie is an interesting observation, but is a > separate > issue and should probably be raised on python-ideas, since I'm guessing it the > current behavior was a conscious design choice. Yes, it works as designed: the coding cookie is used to decode bytes to characters in unicode literals (e.g. if I have u'Éric' in my source file, not a \u escape); bytes literals are independent of the coding cookie and should always contain only bytes, not characters (including \u escapes), e.g. '\xc3\x89ric' for UTF-8 bytes. ---------- nosy: +eric.araujo _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16656> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
