Fredrik Lundh wrote: > the runtime warning you get when you use non-ascii characters in > python source code points the poor user to this page: > > http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html > > which tells the user to add a > > # -*- coding: <encoding name> -*- > > to the source, and then provides a more detailed syntax description > as a RE pattern. to help people that didn't grow up with emacs, and > don't speak fluent RE, and/or prefer to skim documentation, it would > be a quite helpful if the page also contained a few examples; e.g. > > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*- > > can anyone with SVN write access perhaps add this?
Good point. I'll add some examples. > (I'd probably add a note to the top of the page for anyone who arrives > there via a Python error message, which summarizes the pep and provides > an example or two; abstracts and rationales are nice, but if you're just a > plain user, a "do this; here's how it works; further discussion below" style > is a bit more practical...) The PEP isn't all that long, so I don't think a summary would help. However, we might want to point the user to a different URL in the error message, e.g. a Wiki page with more user-friendly content. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Nov 04 2005) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2005-10-17: Released mxODBC.Zope.DA 1.0.9 http://zope.egenix.com/ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com