Tobias wrote:

> Since lots of our source files contain vim magical comments (at the top
> or bottom), I reckon vim is more common in our community than emacs (-*-
> coding: ... -*- being an "emacs cookie").

May be so, but does that really matter ? We are not going to develop 
this tool, so all that matters is whether Python itself is happy. I 
suggest we just take whatever version is in use 'out there'.