Although a file adds I/O slowdown to startup (which is already slow) while an envvar doesn’t.
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 13:19 Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote: > > > > On 3 Feb 2021, at 02:49, Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Rather than reply point by point I will summarise my input. > > I think that utf-8 mode is a great idea. > > I think that an .INI file in the style that py.exe uses is better then env > var. > > Env var on WIndows could be used but there can be surprises with the way > windows merges user and system env vars. Maybe that only with PATH that > is very odd. > > I'm hoping that the solution implemented allows new users to get a great > experience and also that advanced users can get control of the mode. > > Personally I'd prefer to have files that I edit to configure python then > registry > keys. I can put files into git, not exmple. I have to work hard to manage > registry > keys via git. > > Barry > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/N4HV3CM3QAUNZA4XRP2PQTNNR2BV7H2V/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido (mobile)
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