[Python-ideas] Subprocess: Add an encoding argument

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:05:02 +0100
Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sounds reasonable. I'll look into that (no promises on timescales :-))
> In practice, I doubt we'd need per-stram encodings particularly often,
> so I like the idea of *not* clutteringthe API to cope with them. I'm
> curious, by the way - what arguments do you consider as "legacy
> baggage" (a lot of them seem to me to be OS-specific and/or
> specialised rather than legacy).

I was thinking mostly about universal_newlines. Perhaps preexec_fn
applies too, since it's dangerous (read: unstable).

Regards

Antoine.