PEP-0263 and default encoding

Klaus Alexander Seistrup spam at magnetic-ink.dk
Wed Oct 1 07:44:27 EDT 2003


Duncan Booth skrev:

>> Still beats me why it doesn't use the sys.getdefaultencoding()
>> instead of inconveniencing me.
>
> I think the reasoning was that you might give your scripts to
> someone else who has a different default encoding and it would
> then fail obscurely.

You're probably right that's part of the reason.


  // Klaus

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