On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 at 08:52, Inada Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Windows, it must be UTF-8. For example, we use `chcp 65001` in > `activate.bat` to support unicode path. > On Unix, raw path is bytestring. So paths can be written as-is. Python > decode it with fsencoding.
Remember that .pth files contain executable code as well as paths, so fsencoding is not correct for a .pth file as a whole. > So I think this is the ideal solution. But this solution requires > platform-specific code in the site.py. > I don't think pth files are important enough for this complexity. .pth files are pretty important in the packaging community. I'd strongly support making their format and behaviour more precisely defined. > Sub-optimal idea is using UTF-8. It is the best encoding for Windows. > And most Unix systems use UTF-8 too. +1. IMO, UTF-8 is the only reasonable choice here. The problem is with the transition - we need to find a way to deal with existing `.pth` files, and with people using older version of tools (like setuptools and pipx) that write `.pth` files (so we can't assume, for example, that Python 3.12 will never see a .pth file using the old-style encoding). It's worth noting that using the default encoding is the *correct* way of writing .pth files at the moment (as that's how site.py reads them - see https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/site.py#L173) so this is technically a file format change - tools writing .pth files will *have* to include version-specific code if they want to support multiple versions of Python. We need to be very clear about this - it's not just a case of "tools need to specify the encoding". Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/MIZLKDTX2EXEHFKKHO33FRSO7EH62DGW/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
