[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 536] ipapython: remove default_encoding_utf8

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Tue, 05 Jan 2016, Tomas Babej wrote:
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>On 01/05/2016 08:54 AM, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> the attached patch replaces the default_encoding_utf8 binary module with
>> 2 lines of equivalent Python code.
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>> Honza
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>This looks fine to me, however, I wonder, why this approach was ever
>taken? The sys.setdefaultencoding is available in all versions of Python
>ever supported by FreeIPA.
>
>Is it possible we're missing something here? Or was this option simply
>overlooked?
There is more history to it and it is mostly ugly:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=243541

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/ Alexander Bokovoy