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Date:   Thu, 5 Sep 2019 06:57:01 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: license-rules.txt: cover SPDX headers on Python
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On Thu,  5 Sep 2019 06:23:13 -0300
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> wrote:

> Python's PEP-263 [1] dictates that an script that needs to default to
> UTF-8 encoding has to follow this rule:
> 
> 	'Python will default to ASCII as standard encoding if no other
> 	 encoding hints are given.
> 
> 	 To define a source code encoding, a magic comment must be placed
> 	 into the source files either as first or second line in the file'

So this is only Python 2, right?  Python 3 is UTF8 by default.  Given that
Python 2 is EOL in January, is this something we should be concerned
about?  Or should we instead be making sure that all the Python we have
in-tree works properly with Python 3 and be done with it?

Thanks,

jon