Encoding header in generated files is not PEP 0263 compliant.

[francis@…]

South's "manage.py datamigration" command generates Python files with the following header:
# encoding: utf-8

This header is not compliant with PEP 0263. I suggest changing it to
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
which is PEP 0263 compliant and also works in Emacs.

[francis@…]

Pull request sent: ​https://bitbucket.org/andrewgodwin/south/pull-request/6/made-encoding-header-generated-python

[kmike84@…]

The existing header is PEP 0263 compliant because it matches 'coding[:=]\s*([-\w.]+)' regexp, the only issue here is Emacs.

[Francis Devereux <francis@…>]

Sorry, you're right - I didn't read the PEP properly, I was looking at the examples in it and saw that what South generates isn't the same as any of the examples.
It would still be nice to have encoding headers that work in Emacs though.

[andrew]

I've pulled them anyway, no harm in changing the headers so it works with more things!

[Francis Devereux <francis@…>]

Thanks :-)