[Python-ideas] Re: Changing the default text encoding of pathlib

2021-01-25 Thread Paul Moore
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 20:02, Christopher Barker wrote: > using a system setting as a default is a really bad idea in this day of > interconnected computers. I'd mildly dispute this. There are (significant) downsides with the default behaviour being system-dependent, yes, but there are *also* di

[Python-ideas] Re: Changing the default text encoding of pathlib

2021-01-25 Thread Christopher Barker
On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 6:33 PM Inada Naoki wrote: > My previous thread is hijacked about "auto guessing" idea, yes -- I'm a bit confused by that -- are folks advocating for making some sort of encoding detection the default? or available as an option in the stdlib? -- in any case, Ithink that