Guido van Rossum added the comment: Only a few modules are involved in the bootstrap. The filename is mostly used to display in the traceback. There is already a fallback in the traceback-printing code that tries to look through sys.path for a file matching the module if it can't open the filename from the code object.
So I suggest to do something much simpler -- if the default encoding isn't set yet, use ASCII + replace, and leave it at that -- don't bother fixing these things later. Another thought: when installed, the built-in modules are compiled to byte code by compileall.py, which runs late enough so that the filesystem encoding is known and everything can be done right. I have a question for Alexandre related to frozen.c -- why is there a mode line with an encoding involved in freezing hello.py? __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1272> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
