> Sure, but for at least one user Python 3.6 fails to start because > initialising the sys.std* streams fails due to not finding a “874” > encoding.
That doesn't mean that the bug is best fixed by adding an alias. If the error was failing to find encoding "ltain-1", would we add an alias or fix the spelling? If 874 is not an official alias, we should consider it a misspelling and fix the misspelling, not add an alias. But either way, the point Stephen is making is that even if 874 is a legitimate alias, that shouldn't give us carte blanche to add numeric aliases for every encoding. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
