From: R David Murray Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:55:29 +0000 (-0500) Subject: whatsnew: encoding is now optional in PYTHONIOENCODING (#18818) X-Git-Tag: v3.4.1rc1~233^2~201 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=77d73facdc0c0fc17ba3d6487aed0276d8b7079c;p=python whatsnew: encoding is now optional in PYTHONIOENCODING (#18818) --- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index ddc21fc960..109549e071 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -1578,6 +1578,11 @@ Other Improvements to use copies rather than symlinks even on systems where symlinks are the default. (Contributed by Vinay Sajip in :issue:`18807`.) +* The encoding name is now optional in the value set for the + :envvar:`PYTHONIOENCODING` environment variable. This makes it possible to + set just the error handler, without changing the default encoding. + (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`18818`.) + Significant Optimizations -------------------------