Message 205459 - Python tracker

Message205459

Author	deleted250130
Recipients	deleted250130, pitrou, r.david.murray, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date	2013-12-07.15:14:30
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Message-id	<1386429270.85.0.469407641779.issue19846@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Using an environment variable is not the holy grail for this. On writing a non-single-user application you can't expect the user to set extra environment variables. If compatibility is the only reason in my opinion it would be much better to include something like sys.use_strict_encoding() which decides if print()/write() will use sys.getfilesystemencoding() or sys.getdefaultencoding().

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Using an environment variable is not the holy grail for this. On writing a non-single-user application you can't expect the user to set extra environment variables.

If compatibility is the only reason in my opinion it would be much better to include something like sys.use_strict_encoding() which decides if print()/write() will use sys.getfilesystemencoding() or sys.getdefaultencoding().

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