[issue41152] IDLE: revise setting of iomenu.encoding and .errors
Terry J. Reedy
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Jun 29 01:36:21 EDT 2020
Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:
I got the 'within iomenu' part a bit wrong. To open a file to edit, iomenu.IOBinging('IO').open tells filelist to use IO.loadfile. This reads bytes 'so that we can handle end-of-line convention ourselves'. (I suspect that this predates 3.x and might not be needed any more.) IO.loadfile calls IO._decode which looks for a utf-8 BOM, looks for a coding cookie, tries ascii (not needed in 3.x), tries utf-8, and asks the user for an encoding, using iomenu.encoding as the initial value in the query box. This box is deprecated in the sense that for 3.x, a python file should either be utf-8 or have an encoding cookie.
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