On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 03:03:54AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 1:06 AM Petr Viktorin <encu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Let me know if it's clear in the newest version, with this note: > > > > > Here, ``encoding: unicode_escape`` in the initial comment is an encoding > > > declaration. The ``unicode_escape`` encoding instructs Python to treat > > > ``\u0027`` as a single quote (which can start/end a string), ``\u002c`` as > > > a comma (punctuator), etc. > > > > Huh. Is that level of generality actually still needed? Can Python > deprecate all but a small handful of encodings?
To be clear, are you proposing to deprecate the encodings *completely* or just as the source code encoding? Personally, I think that using obscure encodings as the source encoding is one of those "linters and code reviews should check it" issues. Besides, now that I've learned about this unicode_escape encoding, I think that's going to be *awesome* for winning obfuscated Python competitions! *wink* -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/27IDDKAADVBAZSRZ2I5EO5SLXZIY6ANW/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
