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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2013-09-13 08:46:24 (GMT)
committerSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2013-09-13 08:46:24 (GMT)
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Issue #18818: The "encodingname" part of PYTHONIOENCODING is now optional.
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.. envvar:: PYTHONIOENCODING
If this is set before running the interpreter, it overrides the encoding used
- for stdin/stdout/stderr, in the syntax ``encodingname:errorhandler``. The
- ``:errorhandler`` part is optional and has the same meaning as in
- :func:`str.encode`.
+ for stdin/stdout/stderr, in the syntax ``encodingname:errorhandler``. Both
+ the ``encodingname`` and the ``:errorhandler`` parts are optional and have
+ the same meaning as in :func:`str.encode`.
For stderr, the ``:errorhandler`` part is ignored; the handler will always be
``'backslashreplace'``.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.4
+ The ``encodingname`` part is now optional.
+
.. envvar:: PYTHONNOUSERSITE