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backwardscompat.py
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
print(u'Pétër')
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justpython3.py
print(u'Pétër')
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peterbe commented Jun 26, 2019 

▶ ls
backwardscompat.py justpython3.py

▶ python2 backwardscompat.py
Pétër

▶ python3 backwardscompat.py
Pétër

▶ python3 justpython3.py
Pétër

▶ python2 justpython3.py
  File "justpython3.py", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file justpython3.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details

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