Jim Fulton wrote: > I would argue that it's evil to change the default encoding > in the first place, except in this case to disable implicit > encoding or decoding.
absolutely. unfortunately, all attempts to add such information to the sys module documentation seem to have failed... (last time I tried, I seem to remember that someone argued that "it's there, so it should be documented in a neutral fashion") </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com