On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 21:05, Jim J. Jewett <jimjjew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Who will benefit from this new warning?
>
> Is this basically just changing builtins.open by adding:
>
> if encoding is None and sys.flags.encoding_warning: # and not Android and
> not -X utf8 ?
> warnings.warn(EncodingWarning("Are you sure you want locale instead
> of utf-8?"))
>
> Even for the few people with the knowledge, time, interest, and authority to
> fix the code, is that really helpful?
>
> Helpful enough to put it directly in python as an optional mode, separate
> from the dev mode or show all warnings mode? Why not just add it to a
> linter, or write a 2to3 style checker? Or at least emit or not based on a
> warnings filter?
That's a very good point. If this warning is of use, why have none of
the well-known linters implemented it? And why not prototype the
proposal in them, at least? Python-ideas posts routinely get pushed to
justify "why can't this be done in an external library?" and that
probably applies here too.
Paul
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