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Python should take a lesson from APL: Walrus opera...
It's odd to propose that everyone is programming in a UTF-8 environment, or that all programmers even know what UTF-8 is. "Should know", sure, but they don't, and trying to make an "is" from an "ought" is a nasty, nasty habit.
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on Nov 7, 2019
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The default encoding for Python source code is UTF-8. If they're not using UTF-8 here, it's by choice.
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