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Author lemburg
Recipients brett.cannon, docs@python, lemburg, ncoghlan, petr.viktorin
Date 2016-10-10.15:02:09
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On 10.10.2016 15:08, Petr Viktorin wrote:
> If sys.setdefaultencoding('undefined') breaks parts of the standard library, it might be OK for smaller scripts but I fear it won't help big projects much.

That's true. It does break the stdlib (the codec was originally
added in order to test exactly this scenario).

A new codec "ascii-warn" could easily be added, based on the
code used for "undefined".
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