[issue35131] Cannot access to customized paths within .pth file

Sat Nov 3 10:05:00 EDT 2018

Jason R. Coombs <jaraco at jaraco.com> added the comment:

I'm only aware of one tool that writes .pth files, and that's setuptools, and it always writes ASCII (assuming package names are ASCII), so any encoding handling should be fine there.

> We could add a handler for UnicodeDecodeError that falls back on utf-8?

Yes, reasonable, but maybe we should consider instead _preferring_ UTF-8 and fall back to default encodings. That would be my preference.

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