Why there is no "setdefaultencoding" in sys module?

[crow]

On Jul 10, 12:06 am, crow <wen... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 10, 12:04 am, Steven D'Aprano <st... at REMOVE-THIS-
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> cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> > On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:58:35 -0700, crow wrote:
> > > So, my questions: why there is no setdefaultencoding in sys module? if I
> > > want to change system's default encoding, what should I do?
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> > I think the answer is:
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> > Don't.
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> > If you do, you will break built-ins.
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> >http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/syssetdefaultencoding-is-e...
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> > Googling will find many discussions about this.
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> > Steven
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> Interesting, so it has been removed from python? then why it's still
> in document... It's really misleading.
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> Thanks for your quick answer

oh, I take back my words, it's still there, just I need to
reload(sys).