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Author	lemburg
Recipients	ezio.melotti, lemburg, pitrou
Date	2010-08-09.20:39:41
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Message-id	<4C60675E.8020801@egenix.com>
In-reply-to	<1281383453.04.0.233452795116.issue9549@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr>: > > The use of sys.setdefaultencoding() has always been discouraged, and it has become a no-op in py3k (the encoding is hard-wired to utf-8 and changing it raises an error). It is time to remove this function entirely. > > The state of PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding() should be also considered, since it has become useless for the same reasons. +1 on removing both.

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 
> New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr>:
> 
> The use of sys.setdefaultencoding() has always been discouraged, and it has become a no-op in py3k (the encoding is hard-wired to utf-8 and changing it raises an error). It is time to remove this function entirely.
> 
> The state of PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding() should be also considered, since it has become useless for the same reasons.

+1 on removing both.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2010-08-09 20:39:43	lemburg	set	recipients: + lemburg, pitrou, ezio.melotti
2010-08-09 20:39:41	lemburg	link	issue9549 messages
2010-08-09 20:39:41	lemburg	create