[Python-Dev] Relaxing Unicode error handling

[Martin v. Loewis]

Hye-Shik Chang wrote:

> I'd like to see this feature in python very much. :)
> But don't we keep these sort of variables in sys module?

Yes, but

a) sys.setdefaultunicodeerrorhandling is quite an
    ugly function name, and
b) those things are in the sys module only because
    the builtins had no attributes in the past
    (and neither did types).

Regards,
Martin