Future imports above encoding?

[guettli]

Is this you inted? The imports are above the "# -- coding: utf-8 --" line.

AFAIK the coding should be at the top of the file.

+from __future__ import print_function
+from __future__ import division
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

I think it is a bug.

What happens if there is "#!/usr/bin/python" at the top?

[edschofield]

@guettli : Thanks for the report! This is now fixed in v0.14.2.

[bertsky]

I believe this needs to be re-opened. It only works if the encoding specifier is in the very first line (not if it's in the second), and only if it uses the -*- convention. But PEP 263 specifies the following regex (for the first or second line):

^[ \t\f]*#.*?coding[:=][ \t]*([-_.a-zA-Z0-9]+)

This licenses usage like the following (as can be seen in pyleptonica):

# coding: utf-8

But this gives (with future==0.18.2):

from __future__ import absolute_import

# coding: utf-8

...which does not work anymore, and yields a follow-up error in Python 2 (SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character ...)