Message 359971 - Python tracker

Message359971

Author	vstinner
Recipients	ezio.melotti, hroncok, lemburg, qigangxu, shihai1991, vstinner
Date	2020-01-14.12:41:44
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> The change is backwards incompatible and a backport would break things. See for example how it breaks latexcodec: I reopen the issue. I proposed PR 17997 to document the incompatible change in What's New in Python 3.8. IMO it's a deliberate change and it's correct. I rely on Marc-Andre Lemburg who implemented codecs and encodings modules. He wrote: "Jordon is right. Conversion has to be to underscores, not hyphens.".

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> The change is backwards incompatible and a backport would break things. See for example how it breaks latexcodec:

I reopen the issue. I proposed PR 17997 to *document* the incompatible change in What's New in Python 3.8. IMO it's a deliberate change and it's correct.

I rely on Marc-Andre Lemburg who implemented codecs and encodings modules. He wrote: "Jordon is right. Conversion has to be to underscores, not hyphens.".

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