M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Michael Hudson wrote:
>
>>Martin Blais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>>What if we could completely disable the implicit conversions between
>>>unicode and str? In other words, if you would ALWAYS be forced to
>>>call either .encode() or .decode() to convert between one and the
>>>other... wouldn't that help a lot deal with that issue?
>>
>>
>>I don't know. I've made one or two apps safe against this and it's
>>mostly just annoying.
>>
>>
>>>How hard would that be to implement?
>>
>>import sys
>>reload(sys)
>>sys.setdefaultencoding('undefined')
>
>
> You shouldn't post tricks like these :-)
>
> The correct way to change the default encoding is by
> providing a sitecustomize.py module which then call the
> sys.setdefaultencoding("undefined").
This is a much more evil trick IMO, as it affects all Python code,
rather than a single program.
I would argue that it's evil to change the default encoding
in the first place, except in this case to disable implicit
encoding or decoding.
Jim
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