R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: This is surprisingly non-transparent. However, it works as documented in py3.
It sorta works as documented in p2, except that there's a bit left out of the docs. In py2, the code that results in getfilesystemencoding's value sets the locale based on the environment, does the nl_langinfo(CODESET), and then restores the locale to the default (C). In py3, python initialization sets LC_CTYPE to the enviroment, and uses that to determine getsystemfilencoding's default value. LC_CTYPE is left set to the environment. This means that in py2, using locale.nl_langinfo doesn't get you the same value that is used to set getfilesystemencoding until after you've done a call to set the locale to the environment. In py3, however, locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET) will by default return the value that is used to set getfilesystemencoding's value. If you'd like to submit a doc patch for p2, please feel free, and I'll apply it. ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1495089> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
