On 07/09/2010 06:06 PM, crow wrote: > On Jul 10, 12:04 am, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- > cybersource.com.au> wrote: >> On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:58:35 -0700, crow wrote: >>> So, my questions: why there is no setdefaultencoding in sys module? if I >>> want to change system's default encoding, what should I do? >> >> I think the answer is: >> >> Don't. >> >> If you do, you will break built-ins. >> >> http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/syssetdefaultencoding-is-e... >> >> Googling will find many discussions about this. >> >> -- >> Steven > > Interesting, so it has been removed from python? then why it's still > in document... It's really misleading.
Actually, it's still there. Lurking in the corners of sys. But site.py knows it's evil: % python Python 2.6.5+ (release26-maint, Jul 6 2010, 12:58:20) [GCC 4.4.4] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.setdefaultencoding Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'setdefaultencoding' >>> reload(sys) <module 'sys' (built-in)> >>> sys.setdefaultencoding <built-in function setdefaultencoding> >>> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
