On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 3:58 PM Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Should we support it in Unix? I don't think so. >> Command-line and environment variables are easy to use on Unix. > > > maybe, but we have many of the same issues -- we want the configuration tied > to the environment, not to the user and all environments. And I'd rather have > things done the same way on all platforms, rather than the native way on each > platform, if I have to make a choice. That is, if there is a way to configure > Python on Windows, I'd really like the SAME way to be available on all > platforms. >
On Unix, there are N ways (e.g. .envrc). N+1 way is really worthwhile? At least, `python.cfg` (or `python.ini`) in bin/ directory is not good for Unix environment. >> >> And beginners should use a UTF-8 locale. > > Beginners may not know how to do that / have a choice. > > This is a question I still don't know the answer to -- I think that most > (all?) non Windows platforms currently supported use utf-8 -- but is that > guaranteed? That is, might some platform come up that does need utf-8 mode? > So why not have it available everywhere, even though it will be a no-op on > most systems. > UTF-8 mode is provided for Unix because there is environments for *deployment*, like minimal Unix container image. They have only C locale. For desktop use, I think all Unix environments suited for beginners use UTF-8 locale by default. There is no guarantee. But if default locale is not UTF-8, I don't think the environment is suited for beginners who learning to Python. Regards, -- Inada Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ 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/3H7IX6MRFOH3ILZNLXRV6QSKAKVDILLJ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
