Re: [Python-Dev] Support of UTF-16 and UTF-32 source encodings

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Steve Dower wrote: > The native encoding on Windows has been UTF-16 since Windows NT. Obviously > we've survived without Python tokenization support for a long time, but > every API uses it. Windows 2000 was the first version to have broad

Re: [Python-Dev] Support of UTF-16 and UTF-32 source encodings

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > Can the py.exe launcher handle a UTF-16 shebang? (I'm pretty sure Unix > program loaders won't.) That alone might be a reason for strongly > encouraging ASCII-compat encodings. The launcher supports shebangs encoded as

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP-8 wart... it recommends short names because of DOS

On 10/21/15, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > On 21.10.15 04:25, Gregory P. Smith wrote: >> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#names-to-avoid >> >> /"Since module names are mapped to file names, and some file systems are >> case insensitive and truncate long names, it is