Re: [Python-Dev] Add a new "locale" codec?

2012/2/8 Simon Cross <hodgestar+pythondev@gmail.com>:

Is the idea to have:

 b"foo".decode("locale")

be roughly equivalent to

 encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding(False)  b"foo".decode(encoding)

?

Yes. Whereas: b"foo".decode(sys.getfilesystemencoding()) is equivalent to encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding(True) b"foo".decode(encoding) Victor