[python-committers] Re: [IMPORTANT] Preparations for 3.11.0 beta 1

Hi, Pablo.

I just submitted the PEP 686 to the SC. https://github.com/python/steering-council/issues/118

In this PEP, I am proposing:

a. Small improvement for UTF-8 mode in Python 3.11 b. Make UTF-8 mode default in Python 3.13.

(a) is an important change for (b) so I included it in the PEP. More precisely, (a) contains two changes:

• Making open(path, encoding="locale") use locale encoding in UTF-8 mode (Python 3.10 used UTF-8)
• Add locale.getencoding() that is same to locale.getpreferredencoding(False) but returns locale encoding even in UTF-8 mode.

These changes are important for (b). But they are not a big change needing PEP.

What should I do?

• Do not merge anything until PEP accepted.
• Merge (a) without waiting PEP accepted.
• Merge (a) and remove it from the PEP.

FWI, I and Victor are implementing locale.getencoding() for now.

https://bugs.python.org/issue47000 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/32068

Regards,

Inada Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com>