Postscript: Character Encoding Of Python Source Code

Python 3 assumes that your source code — i.e. each .py file — is encoded in UTF-8.

In Python 2, the default encoding for .py files was ASCII. In Python 3, the default encoding is **UTFf-8.

If you would like to use a different encoding within your Python code, you can put an encoding declaration on the first line of each file. This declaration defines a .py file to be windows-1252: