Martin v. Löwis wrote:
In retrospect, it should have been called sys._setdefaultencoding().
That sends an extra signal that it's not meant for general use.
Crazy idea: how about mutating it into sys._setdefaultencoding rather
than deleting it?
Please don't post crazy ideas unless you really mean them.
This specific crazy idea must be rejected; it would break backwards
compatibility, for no good reason.
How is it breaking backwards compatibility?
- If people were somehow relying on sys.setdefaultencoding to be
deleted, that's fine, it's still gone
- If people were somehow relying on sys not having an attribute called
_setdefaultencoding, or were relying on stuffing an attribute into sys
called _setdefaultencoding then... well... that seems pretty unlikely ;-)
Chris
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