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| author | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> | 2010-08-19 11:36:43 (GMT) |
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| committer | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> | 2010-08-19 11:36:43 (GMT) |
| commit | 9802b39c12712e924bed699812756ce5076b77a3 (patch) | |
| tree | c766f8d6c74bd12b361fbdd0e6f423e62a768f41 /Doc | |
| parent | 99435247e39134c34cff185c6d73d8ebc77d07e1 (diff) | |
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PYTHONFSENCODING is not available on Windows or Mac OS X
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst | 4 |
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diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst index 45c1040..28df51d 100644 --- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst +++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst @@ -447,6 +447,10 @@ These environment variables influence Python's behavior. 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 diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index 2ec93d2..bf65545 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -242,7 +242,9 @@ Filenames and unicode The filesystem encoding can be specified by setting the :envvar:`PYTHONFSENCODING` environment variable before running the interpreter. -The value should be a string in the form ``<encoding>``, e.g. ``utf-8``. +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`. |