Sorry for the delay. I want to do it in Python 3.10, but I am not sure
the PEP is accepted.
I updated the PEP today and working on reference implementation now.
great, thanks! let us know if there's anything else we can do to help that along.
The thread for the PEP is
https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-597-raise-a-warning-when-encoding-is-omitted/3880
Thanks -- I guess I need to get on discuss finally :-)
If PEP 597 is accepted, you can find all code omitting
`encoding="utf-8"`. Your library users can run it without UTF-8 mode.
yes -- a good reason to get that done :-)
> Where would Python look for a "configuration file like `pyvenv.cfg`" ?
I am not a Windows expert so I am not sure. But I think it should be
the same directory where `python.exe` is in.
I'm not a Windows expert either, but I do think that it's pretty common for Windows to use the location of the exe as part of start-up, location of config files, etc.
> Back to my idea above -- any way to have that be a pip (and conda) installable package? So it could be in a requirements file?
I have no idea.
This, I think is worth exploring -- a way for an application or library to specofy that it is expecting utf8 mode.
Conda can put a file anywhere (within the conda environment), so a config file would be very doable.
But I'm not sure if pip can put anything outside of site packages -- and I'm not sure if Python knows where site-packages is early enough in the startup process.
So if anyone knows if there would be a way to pip-install UTF8-mode -- I think that would be a nice feature.
BTW -- is it guaranteed that all other supported systems other than Windows use utf-8? or should UTF8-mode be available everywhere, even though in most cases it won't make a difference.
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