Offering encoding="locale" (or open.locale or ... ) instead of a long function call using False (locale.getpreferredencoding(False)) seems like a win for Explicit is Better Than Implicit. It would then be possible to say "yeah, locale really is what I meant".
Err... unless the charset determination is so tricky that it ends up just adding another not-quite-right near-but-not-exact-synonym. Adding a new Warning subclass, and maybe a new warning type, and maybe a new environment variable, and maybe a new launch flag ... these all seem to risk just making things more complicated without sufficient gain. Would a recipe for site-packages be sufficient, or does this need to run too early in the bootstrapping process? -jJ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VUVVGVCBLVR55ELDLX44SFLBK7ED7WGG/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/