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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2010-10-13 22:02:27 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2010-10-13 22:02:27 (GMT)
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Issue #9992: Remove PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable.
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-rw-r--r--Doc/using/cmdline.rst12
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst6
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
index 28df51d..7da1954 100644
--- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
+++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
@@ -442,18 +442,6 @@ These environment variables influence Python's behavior.
import of source modules.
-.. envvar:: PYTHONFSENCODING
-
- If this is set before running the interpreter, it overrides the encoding used
- for the filesystem encoding (see :func:`sys.getfilesystemencoding`).
-
- This variable is not available (ignored) on Windows and Mac OS X: the
- filesystem encoding is pinned to ``'mbcs'`` on Windows and ``'utf-8'`` on
- Mac OS X.
-
- .. versionadded:: 3.2
-
-
.. envvar:: PYTHONIOENCODING
If this is set before running the interpreter, it overrides the encoding used
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index e5d79b6..9ac966d 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
@@ -569,12 +569,6 @@ A number of small performance enhancements have been added:
Filenames and Unicode
=====================
-The filesystem encoding can be specified by setting the
-:envvar:`PYTHONFSENCODING` environment variable before running the interpreter.
-The value is an encoding name, e.g. ``iso-8859-1``. This variable is not
-available (ignored) on Windows and Mac OS X: the filesystem encoding is pinned
-to ``'mbcs'`` on Windows and ``'utf-8'`` on Mac OS X.
-
The :mod:`os` module has two new functions: :func:`~os.fsencode` and
:func:`~os.fsdecode`.