[Python-Dev] a suggestion ... Re: PEP 383 (again) (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Apr 29 23:19:25 CEST 2009

The whole purpose of PEP 383 is to send the exact same bytes that were read from the OS back to the OS => violating (2) (for whatever the apparent system file-encoding is, not limited to UTF-8), and that has overwhelmingly popular support.

Note that this won't happen automatically, either, AIUI. The PEP's proposed implementation is as an error handler, and this would need to be specified explicitly. It's not intended to be the default.

Actually, no: the error handler will be automatically used in all places that convert file names to bytes. I have clarified the PEP to make that explicit. IOW, it replaces the current "strict" setting in these cases.

Regards, Martin

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