I didn't mean that the *assignment* should raise exception. I mean that any string constant that cannot be decoded using sys.getdefaultencoding() should be considered a kind of syntax error.
I agree of course with the argument of backward compatibility, which means that my suggestion is for Python 3.0, not earlier. And I admit that my suggestion lacks a solution for Neil Cerutti's use of non-decodable simple strings. And I admit that there are certainly more competent people than me to think about this question. I just wanted to throw my penny into the pond :-) Luc Fredrik Lundh wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Suggestion: shouldn't an error raise already when I try to assign s2? > > variables are not typed in Python. plain assignment will never raise an > exception. > > </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
