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| author | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2008-10-03 16:09:28 (GMT) |
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| committer | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2008-10-03 16:09:28 (GMT) |
| commit | 04dc25c53728f5c2fe66d9e66af67da0c9b8959d (patch) | |
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Issue #3187: Add sys.setfilesystemencoding.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 47217f4..568b06d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -578,6 +578,14 @@ always available. :file:`/usr/include/dlfcn.h` using the :program:`h2py` script. Availability: Unix. +.. function:: setfilesystemencoding(enc) + + Set the encoding used when converting Python strings to file names to *enc*. + By default, Python tries to determine the encoding it should use automatically + on Unix; on Windows, it avoids such conversion completely. This function can + be used when Python's determination of the encoding needs to be overwritten, + e.g. when not all file names on disk can be decoded using the encoding that + Python had chosen. .. function:: setprofile(profilefunc) |