[issue9549] Remove sys.setdefaultencoding()

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
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> New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:
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> The use of sys.setdefaultencoding() has always been discouraged, and it has become a no-op in py3k (the encoding is hard-wired to utf-8 and changing it raises an error). It is time to remove this function entirely.
> 
> The state of PyUnicode_SetDefaultEncoding() should be also considered, since it has become useless for the same reasons.

+1 on removing both.

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