[Python-Dev] deleting setdefaultencoding iin site.py is evil

[Robert Brewer]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Being adults about it also means when to give up. Chris, please stop
> > arguing about this.
> 
> Sure. Even if people had agreed to this change, it wouldn't end up in
a
> python release I could use for this project.
> 
> > There are plenty of techniques you can use to get
> > what you want without changing Python, for example virtualenv, which
> > allows you to create a custom Python environment for each project.
> 
> Yep, I'll resort to wrapping the buildout in a virtualenv iff the
> reload(sys) hack ends up causing problems...
> 
> > Or
> > you could switch to Python 3.1,
> 
> I would love to, once Python 3 has a viable web app story...

CherryPy 3.2 is now in beta, and mod_wsgi is nearly ready as well. Both
support Python 3. :)


Robert Brewer
fumanchu at aminus.org