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[Bug #683416] Make PEP263 coverage a bit more explicit, and add it to the

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@ -285,13 +285,16 @@ file. For example, a UTF-8 file can be declared with:
\end{verbatim} \end{verbatim}
Without such an encoding declaration, the default encoding used is Without such an encoding declaration, the default encoding used is
ISO-8859-1, also known as Latin1. 7-bit ASCII. Executing or importing modules containing string
literals with 8-bit characters and no encoding declaration will result
in a \exception{DeprecationWarning} being signalled by Python 2.3; in
2.4 this will be a syntax error.
The encoding declaration only affects Unicode string literals; the The encoding declaration only affects Unicode string literals, which
text in the source code will be converted to Unicode using the will be converted to Unicode using the specified encoding. Note that
specified encoding. Note that Python identifiers are still restricted Python identifiers are still restricted to ASCII characters, so you
to ASCII characters, so you can't have variable names that use can't have variable names that use characters outside of the usual
characters outside of the usual alphanumerics. alphanumerics.
\begin{seealso} \begin{seealso}
@ -2079,6 +2082,11 @@ if \var{X} is more than one character long.
integer instead of raising an \exception{OverflowError} when a string integer instead of raising an \exception{OverflowError} when a string
or floating-point number is too large to fit into an integer. or floating-point number is too large to fit into an integer.
\item If you have Unicode strings that contain 8-bit characters, you
must declare the file's encoding (UTF-8, Latin-1, or whatever) by
adding a comment to the top of the file. See
section~\ref{section-encodings} for more information.
\item Calling Tcl methods through \module{_tkinter} no longer \item Calling Tcl methods through \module{_tkinter} no longer
returns only strings. Instead, if Tcl returns other objects those returns only strings. Instead, if Tcl returns other objects those
objects are converted to their Python equivalent, if one exists, or objects are converted to their Python equivalent, if one exists, or