New submission from STINNER Victor <vstin...@redhat.com>:
sys._enablelegacywindowsfsencoding() was added late in PEP 529 design "just in
case" if something goes wrong. But I'm not aware of anyone using it. Do we want
to keep supporting the *legacy* Windows filesystem encoding (ANSI code page)
forever? IMHO using UTF-8 is a way more practical solution to design portable
applications working unmodified on Windows *and* Unix. Well, it's the purpose
of the PEP 529.
I propose to deprecate sys._enablelegacywindowsfsencoding() and
PYTHONLEGACYWINDOWSFSENCODING environment variable in Python 3.9 and remove it
from Python 3.10. Calling sys._enablelegacywindowsfsencoding() would emit a
DeprecationWarning in 3.9.
I dislike sys._enablelegacywindowsfsencoding() because it can lead to mojibake:
filenames decoded from the ANSI code page but then encoded to UTF-8. In the PEP
587 "Python Initialization Configuration" I tried to ensure that encodings are
set early: in a new "pre-initialization" phase. Encodings should not change
after the pre-initialization.
--
By the way, I'm not aware of any issue with io._WindowsConsoleIO. Should we
also deprecated PYTHONLEGACYWINDOWSSTDIO environment variable which opt-out
from the new io._WindowsConsoleIO?
Extract of open() code in Modules/_io/_iomodule.c:
/* Create the Raw file stream */
{
PyObject *RawIO_class = (PyObject *)&PyFileIO_Type;
#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
PyConfig *config = &_PyInterpreterState_GET_UNSAFE()->config;
if (!config->legacy_windows_stdio && _PyIO_get_console_type(path_or_fd)
!= '\0') {
RawIO_class = (PyObject *)&PyWindowsConsoleIO_Type;
encoding = "utf-8";
}
#endif
raw = PyObject_CallFunction(RawIO_class,
"OsiO", path_or_fd, rawmode, closefd,
opener);
}
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components: Windows
messages: 346631
nosy: ZackerySpytz, eryksun, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, vstinner,
zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Deprecate sys._enablelegacywindowsfsencoding()?
versions: Python 3.9
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