Re: [Python-ideas] Support WHATWG versions of legacy encodings

2018-02-05 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
05.02.18 12:52, M.-A. Lemburg пише: Let's leave things as they are and perhaps a section to the codecs documentation, as you suggest, where to find other encodings which a user might want to use and tools to help with fixing encoding or decoding errors. Here's a random list from PyPI with some

[Python-ideas] Possible Enhancement to py Launcher - set default

2018-02-05 Thread Steve Barnes
When a new version of python is in alpha/beta it is often desirable to have it installed for tests but remain on a previous version for day to day use. However, currently the Windows py launcher defaults to the highest version that it finds, which means that unless you are very careful you

Re: [Python-ideas] Possible Enhancement to py Launcher - set default

2018-02-05 Thread Steve Barnes
On 05/02/2018 11:04, Paul Moore wrote: > On 5 February 2018 at 08:10, Steve Barnes wrote: >> When a new version of python is in alpha/beta it is often desirable to >> have it installed for tests but remain on a previous version for day to >> day use. >> >> However,

Re: [Python-ideas] Support WHATWG versions of legacy encodings

2018-02-05 Thread Paul Moore
On 5 February 2018 at 06:40, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > 05.02.18 05:01, Nick Coghlan пише: >> >> On 2 February 2018 at 16:52, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> >>> If it were my decision, I'd have these codecs raise a warning (not an >>> error) when used for

Re: [Python-ideas] Possible Enhancement to py Launcher - set default

2018-02-05 Thread Paul Moore
On 5 February 2018 at 08:10, Steve Barnes wrote: > When a new version of python is in alpha/beta it is often desirable to > have it installed for tests but remain on a previous version for day to > day use. > > However, currently the Windows py launcher defaults to the

Re: [Python-ideas] Support WHATWG versions of legacy encodings

2018-02-05 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 05.02.2018 04:01, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 2 February 2018 at 16:52, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> If it were my decision, I'd have these codecs raise a warning (not an >> error) when used for encoding. But I guess some people will consider >> that either going too far or not

Re: [Python-ideas] Support WHATWG versions of legacy encodings

2018-02-05 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 05.02.2018 12:39, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > 05.02.18 12:52, M.-A. Lemburg пише: >> Let's leave things as they are and perhaps a section to the codecs >> documentation, as you suggest, where to find other encodings which >> a user might want to use and tools to help with fixing encoding or >>

Re: [Python-ideas] Possible Enhancement to py Launcher - set default

2018-02-05 Thread Jan Claeys
On Mon, 2018-02-05 at 11:04 +, Paul Moore wrote: > On 5 February 2018 at 08:10, Steve Barnes > wrote: > > When a new version of python is in alpha/beta it is often desirable > > to have it installed for tests but remain on a previous version for > > day to day use. > >

Re: [Python-ideas] Possible Enhancement to py Launcher - set default

2018-02-05 Thread Franklin? Lee
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 6:04 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 5 February 2018 at 08:10, Steve Barnes wrote: >> When a new version of python is in alpha/beta it is often desirable to >> have it installed for tests but remain on a previous version for day to