New submission from John Machin <sjmac...@users.sourceforge.net>: Docs say """The default encoding is platform dependent""" but don't say how to find out what that is, or how it is determined. On my Windows XP SP3 setup, the default is cp1252, but the best/only guess at finding out without actually opening a file involved sys.defaultencoding() which produces 'utf-8'. I was pointed at locale.getpreferredencoding(), which returns 'cp1252' on my machine.
Please add a sentence along these lines: The default encoding is (obtained by calling|the same as) locale.getpreferredencoding(), not sys.getdefaultencoding() -- corrected/amplified as necessary. ---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 80811 nosy: georg.brandl, sjmachin severity: normal status: open title: built-in open(..., encoding=vague_default) versions: Python 3.0, Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5107> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
