Re: Trying to understand this moji-bake

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On 1/25/2014 2:13 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 4:56 AM, Peter Pearson <ppearson@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
>> $ python2.7 -c "import sys; print(sys.stdin.encoding)"
>> UTF-8
>
> This isn't from stdin, though, it's about the interpretation of the
> bytes of source code without a magic cookie.
>
> According to PEP 263 [1], the default encoding should have become
> "ascii" as of Python 2.5. That's what puzzles me.

I believe it is actually (but unofficially) latin-1 so that latin-1 
accented chars can be used in identifiers even though only ascii is 
officially supported.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Trying to understand this moji-bake Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-01-25 04:37 +0000
  Re: Trying to understand this moji-bake Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-01-25 16:08 +1100
  Re: Trying to understand this moji-bake Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-25 17:08 +1100
    Re: Trying to understand this moji-bake Peter Pearson <ppearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-01-25 17:56 +0000
      Re: Trying to understand this moji-bake Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-26 06:13 +1100
      Re: Trying to understand this moji-bake Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-01-25 22:31 -0500
    Re: Trying to understand this moji-bake Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-01-26 02:04 +0000
      Re: Trying to understand this moji-bake Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-26 13:08 +1100
  Re: Trying to understand this moji-bake Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-25 09:56 +0100
  Re: Trying to understand this moji-bake wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-01-25 01:24 -0800
  Re: Trying to understand this moji-bake Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2014-01-25 21:15 +0000

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