[Python-3000] locale-aware strings ?

[Paul Prescod]

On 9/4/06, David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>...
> I would prefer that there is no default. But since that is incompatible
> with the existing API for open(), I accept that I'm not likely to win
> that argument.

First, can you outline how the proposal of no default is incompatible
with the existing API for open?

print open("Documents/foo.py").encoding

Second: the whole IO library is being overhauled. How can backwards
compatibility be an issue?

 Paul Prescod