Jan Vlcinsky added the comment:
I found proposed change very handy (came here researching why it is not
behaving that way).
Taking into account:
- Python shines in handling lists, using generators and iterators
- Largest group of python developers develop web apps, and there it is typical
Jan Vlcinsky added the comment:
The fix shall go to
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/2812d3d99287c50bab99625d7240bcf1c2e32369/Lib/distutils/dist.py#L406
where `parser.read(filename)`
shall be changed to `parser.read(filename, encoding="utf-8")`
This assumes that the setup.cf