STINNER Victor added the comment: > How it can break backward compatibility? Currently repr() just raises > UnicodeEncodeError.
It depends on sys.getdefaultencoding() which can be modified in the site module (or in a PYTHONSTARTUP script) using sys.setdefaultencoding(). It should not possible to change the default encoding, and it was fixed in Python 3. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5876> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
