On 15 November 2015 at 07:23, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote:
> I don't see any good reason for allowing non-ASCII-compatible
> encodings in the reference CPython interpreter.
>From PEP 263:
Any encoding which allows processing the first two lines in the
way indicated above is allowed as source code encoding, this
includes ASCII compatible encodings as well as certain
multi-byte encodings such as Shift_JIS. It does not include
encodings which use two or more bytes for all characters like
e.g. UTF-16. The reason for this is to keep the encoding
detection algorithm in the tokenizer simple.
So this pretty much confirms that double-byte encodings are not valid
for Python source files.
Paul
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