Message 75392 - Python tracker

Message75392

Author	vstinner
Recipients	barry, christian.heimes, lemburg, loewis, vstinner
Date	2008-10-30.22:38:38
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Message-id	<200810302338.31576.victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>
In-reply-to	<1225404861.5.0.864210967508.issue4213@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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Le Thursday 30 October 2008 23:14:21 Martin v. Löwis, vous avez écrit : > I can't agree with that evaluation. In cases where Python would fail > without this patch (i.e. because the file system encoding cannot be > found during startup), My patch doesn't change the way how Python get the file system encoding: it just gets the "Python charset name" (eg. "utf-8" instead of "UTF8", or "iso8859-1" instead of "latin-1"). The goal was to enable the optimizations, especially with utf-8. It's not related to #3723.

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Le Thursday 30 October 2008 23:14:21 Martin v. Löwis, vous avez écrit :
> I can't agree with that evaluation. In cases where Python would fail
> without this patch (i.e. because the file system encoding cannot be
> found during startup),

My patch doesn't change the way how Python get the file system encoding: it 
just gets the "Python charset name" (eg. "utf-8" instead of "UTF8", 
or "iso8859-1" instead of "latin-1"). The goal was to enable the 
optimizations, especially with utf-8. It's not related to #3723.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-10-30 22:43:14	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, lemburg, loewis, barry, christian.heimes
2008-10-30 22:38:38	vstinner	link	issue4213 messages
2008-10-30 22:38:38	vstinner	create