[Python-Dev] PEP 538 warning at startup: please remove it

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Jun 13 09:10:37 EDT 2017


On 13 June 2017 at 19:48, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> While I'm not opposed to PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE=warn, I'm not sure that
> *developers* will use it. Usually, developers don't care of Unicode
> until enough users complain that their application don't work on a
> specific configuration on a specific platform :-) So I'm not sure that
> it's useful.

It isn't cross-platform app developers that I expect to find it
useful, it's system integrators and operating system developers.
They're users too (and those categories are largely a better
description of my own Python development background than user facing
app development would be).

Cheers,
Nick.

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