Skip Montanaro wrote: > > >> Python uses the 7-bit ASCII character set for program text and string > >> literals. 8-bit characters may be used in string literals and > >> comments but their interpretation is platform dependent; the proper > >> way to insert 8-bit characters in string literals is by using octal > >> or hexadecimal escape sequences. > > mal> It's a fact of life that users don't read reference manuals, but > mal> simply write programs and feel good if they happen to work :-) > > Perhaps a warning should be emitted by the compiler if a plain string > literal is found that contains 8-bit characters. Better yet, perhaps Neal > can add this to PyChecker if he hasn't already... Not yet, but I've been watching this issue as well as string interpolation. Whenever a final direction is decided, I will update checker to warn about potential problems. Neal
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