STINNER Victor added the comment: > I think that Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding should get updated when > locale.setlocale() is run automatically
This is not a good idea. The two following expressions must be True on UNIX: os.fsencode(os.fsdecode(name)) == name os.fsdecode(os.fsencode(name)) == name Said differently: if you change the filesystem encoding, you cannot encode or decode (depending on the type, str or bytes) back the filename. For example, sys.path is a list of filenames filled in an early stage of Python initialization. If you change the filesystem encoding after this list is filled, you may fail to import modules. See also this thread: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-October/104509.html -- If you want to change the locale encoding, please do it outside Python (before running Python), and then don't change it again! Example on Ubuntu: $ LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.iso885915@euro python -c 'import sys; print(sys.getfilesystemencoding())' ISO-8859-15 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16162> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
