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[Python-Dev] deleting setdefaultencoding iin site.py is evil

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 20:35:52 CEST 2009 
On 2009-08-25 13:29 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Robert Kern<robert.kern at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Why? It would still be deleted by site.py.

Ah, yes. You're right. For whatever reason I thought it lived as 
site.setdefaultencoding() when I read your message and thought that you were 
proposing to move it to sys. Never mind me.

-- 
Robert Kern

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  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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