[Python-Dev] PEP 441 - Improving Python ZIP Application Support (original) (raw)

Serhiy Storchaka storchaka at gmail.com
Wed Feb 18 08:45:56 CET 2015

On 17.02.15 23:25, Barry Warsaw wrote:

I'm not sure sys.getfilesystemencoding() is the right encoding, rather than sys.getdefaultencoding(), if you're talking about the encoding of the shebang line rather than the encoding of the resulting pyz filename.

On POSIX sys.getfilesystemencoding() is the right encoding because the shebang is read by system loader which doesn't encode/decode, but uses a file name as raw bytes string. On Mac OS always is UTF-8, but sys.getdefaultencoding() can be ASCII.

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