On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Robert Kern<robert.k...@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. The abuse of sys._getframe() exists because it fills a real need. (As does abuse of sys.setdefaultencoding(). However abusing it is actually more troublesome, because the problems are much less theoretical.) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
