> STINNER Victor <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
> 
>> ... it complicates handling of the output of trace.py. 
>> For each file you have to do the encoding detection dance again ...
> 
> What? You just have to call one function! tokenize.open() :-) Well, ok, 
> it's not commited yet, but it looks like most people agree: #10335.

The problem is that the script that downloads and builds the Python
source and generates the HTML for http://coverage.livinglogic.de/ isn't
ported to Python 3 yet (and can't be ported easily). However *running*
the test suite of course uses the current Python checkout, so an option
that lets me specify which encoding trace.py/regrtest.py should output
would be helpful.