Paul Moore [mailto:p.f.mo...@gmail.com]: wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 14:33, Anders Munch <a...@flonidan.dk> wrote: >> The idea is to make is so that working code only needs to change once, even >> when supporting multiple Python versions. >> That one change is to add either an explicit encoding=None (for >> backwards-compatibility) or an explicit encoding='utf-8' (because that was >> intended all along). No twice about it, one change.
> But then people who added an explicit utf-8 encoding need to remove the > encoding argument again once the default value changes Why would they do that? There's no need to remove anything. Code that doesn't use a default doesn't break because the default changes. regards, Anders _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/WBUP2BNLAKHILUM3ZE3A2LVQKAQRXQ7T/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
