linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: license-rules.txt: cover SPDX headers on Python scripts

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Message-ID: <20190905065701.4744e66a@lwn.net>
Date:   Thu, 5 Sep 2019 06:57:01 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: license-rules.txt: cover SPDX headers on Python
 scripts

On Thu,  5 Sep 2019 06:23:13 -0300
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.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