Nick Coghlan wrote: > Tres Seaver wrote: >>> Perhaps we could also add a warning to the open() API which warns >>> in case a file is opened in text mode without specifying an >>> encoding ?! >> >> That sounds like a good plan to me, given that backward-compatibility >> requires keeping the guessing enabled by default. > > Perhaps a switch along the lines of -t and -tt (warnings/errors for > mixing tabs and spaces)? > > So by default Python continues to guess based on the locale encoding > (perhaps with a PYTHONTEXTENCODING to override the locale specifically > for Python).
Right (that's why I suggested a few messages ago :-). > Then -T might warn whenever a text file encoding is guessed rather than > specified and -TT might raise an error. I was thinking more along the lines of a deprecation warning, but a command line option is good as well. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jan 26 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ 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
