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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2010-09-10 21:57:59 (GMT)
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Issue #9632: Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding() function: use PYTHONFSENCODING
environment variable to set the filesystem encoding at Python startup. sys.setfilesystemencoding() creates inconsistencies because it is unable to reencode all filenames in all objects.
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Library
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+- Issue #9632: Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding() function: use
+ PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable to set the filesystem encoding at
+ Python startup. sys.setfilesystemencoding() creates inconsistencies because
+ it is unable to reencode all filenames in all objects.
+
- Issue #9410: Various optimizations to the pickle module, leading to
speedups up to 4x (depending on the benchmark). Mostly ported from
Unladen Swallow; initial patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.