New submission from Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net>:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > Sounds like a good idea to try to remove redundant cookies *and* to > remove most occasional use of non-ASCII characters outside comments > (except for unittests specifically trying to test Unicode features). > Personally I would use \xXX escapes instead of spelling out the > characters in shlex.py, for example. > > Both with or without the coding cookies, many ways of displaying text > files garble characters outside the ASCII range, so it's better to > stick to ASCII as much as possible. > > --Guido > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Alexander Belopolsky > <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I was looking at the inspect module and noticed that it's source >> starts with "# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-". I have checked and there >> are no non-ascii characters in the file. There are several other >> modules that still use the cookie: >> >> Lib/ast.py:# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- >> Lib/getopt.py:# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- >> Lib/inspect.py:# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*- >> Lib/pydoc.py:# -*- coding: latin-1 -*- >> Lib/shlex.py:# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*- >> Lib/encodings/punycode.py:# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- >> Lib/msilib/__init__.py:# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- >> Lib/sqlite3/__init__.py:#-*- coding: ISO-8859-1 -*- >> Lib/sqlite3/dbapi2.py:#-*- coding: ISO-8859-1 -*- >> Lib/test/bad_coding.py:# -*- coding: uft-8 -*- >> Lib/test/badsyntax_3131.py:# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- >> >> I understand that coding: utf-8 is strictly redundant in 3.x. There >> are cases such as Lib/shlex.py where using encoding other than utf-8 >> is justified. (See >> http://svn.python.org/view?view=rev&revision=82560). What are the >> guidelines for other cases? Should redundant cookies be removed? >> Since not all editors respect the -*- cookie, I think the answer >> should be "yes" particularly when the cookie is setting encoding other >> than utf-8. >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list >> python-...@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> Unsubscribe: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org >> > > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) > ---------- assignee: belopolsky components: Library (Lib) messages: 110798 nosy: belopolsky priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Remove redundant coding cookies from 3.x stdlib _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9308> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
