Chris Withers wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>>> In retrospect, it should have been called sys._setdefaultencoding(). >>>> That sends an extra signal that it's not meant for general use. >>> Crazy idea: how about mutating it into sys._setdefaultencoding rather >>> than deleting it? >> >> Please don't post crazy ideas unless you really mean them. >> >> This specific crazy idea must be rejected; it would break backwards >> compatibility, for no good reason. > > How is it breaking backwards compatibility? > > - If people were somehow relying on sys.setdefaultencoding to be > deleted, that's fine, it's still gone > > - If people were somehow relying on sys not having an attribute called > _setdefaultencoding, or were relying on stuffing an attribute into sys > called _setdefaultencoding then... well... that seems pretty unlikely ;-)
If people were using the reload trickery, that would break if the function changed its name. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
