[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Issue #9561: packaging now writes egg-info files using UTF-8

[Éric Araujo]

Le 06/09/2011 00:11, victor.stinner a écrit :
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/56ab3257ca13
> changeset:   72296:56ab3257ca13
> user:        Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com>
> date:        Tue Sep 06 00:11:13 2011 +0200
> summary:
>   Issue #9561: packaging now writes egg-info files using UTF-8
> 
> instead of the locale encoding

>  
>      def _distutils_pkg_info(self):
>          tmp = self._distutils_setup_py_pkg()
> -        self.write_file([tmp, 'PKG-INFO'], '')
> +        self.write_file([tmp, 'PKG-INFO'], '', encoding='UTF-8')

This function is writing an empty string; isn’t it the same bytes in
UTF-8 or in the locale encoding?  (Are there people that use encodings
with BOMs as locale? *shudders*)