[Python-Dev] Relaxing Unicode error handling

[Martin v. Loewis]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> Hmm, I would assume that application authors do have the
> proper permissions to use the work-around I mentioned
> below, that is, add sitecustomize.py to their application
> as top-level module and change the default encoding to
> use their custom codec instead.

But that would interfere with a sitecustomize.py already
present on the system.

> Then again, if you only change the ASCII codec, you wouldn't
> have to change these hard coded "strict" values.

Why not? If the argument parser invokes the default encoding,
and passes "strict", then this would override the default
error handling of the codec, no?

Regards,
Martin