Brian Smith wrote: > popen() knows that it is running on Windows, and it knows what > encoding Windows needs for its environment (it's either UCS2 or > UTF-16 for most Windows APIs). At least when it receives a unicode > string, it has enough information to apply the conversion > automatically, and doing so saves the caller from having to figure > out what exact encoding is to be used.
So you propose Python should employ a hidden automatism that automagically guesses the right encoding? Why not leave it explicitly/consistently and let the user decide? What will happen if a future Windows changes its encoding? Will we need another magic routine to tell it apart? Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #353: Second-system effect. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
