[Python-Dev] deleting setdefaultencoding iin site.py is evil (original) (raw)

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 20:10:20 CEST 2009

On 2009-08-25 12:37 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

In retrospect, it should have been called sys.setdefaultencoding(). That sends an extra signal that it's not meant for general use.

Considering all of the sys._getframe() hacks out there, I suspect that this would encourage more abuse of the function than the current situation.

-- Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco

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