python ignores encoding definition

[Hiro Protagonist]

Binary package hint: python

1) Ubuntu 9.10
2) python 2.6.4-0ubuntu1

the python script i run is:

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys
print sys.getdefaultencoding()

just these four lines.

3) i expect that this prints out the encoding given in the second line of the script; 'utf-8' in this case as defined in
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ .
(running this script in eclipse using pydev really shows this behaviour).

4) the result of the script when run in bash is: 'ascii'. no matter what encoding i specify in the second line.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

closing as invalid. the encoding of the source file doesn't correspond to the default encoding.