cpython/Misc
Miss Islington (bot) dd613cf335
bpo-33409: Clarify PEP 538/540 relationship (GH-7534)
While locale coercion and UTF-8 mode turned out to
be complementary ideas rather than competing ones,
it isn't immediately obvious why it's useful to
have both, or how they interact at runtime.

This updates both the Python 3.7 What's New doc
and the PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE and PYTHONUTF8
documentation in an attempt to clarify that
relationship:

- in the respective What's New sections, add a closing paragraph
  explaining which problem each one solves, and pointing to the
  other PEP's section for the specific aspects it relies on the other
  PEP to solve
- use "locale-aware mode" as a more descriptive term for the
  default non-UTF-8 mode
- improve wording conistenccy between the PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE
  and PYTHONUTF8 docs when they cover the same thing (mostly
  related to legacy locale detection and setting the standard
  stream error handler)
- improve the description of the locale coercion trigger conditions
  (including pointing out that setting LC_ALL turns off locale coercion)
- port the full description of the UTF-8 mode behaviour changes
  from PEP 540 into the PYTHONUTF8 documentation
- be explicit that PYTHONIOENCODING still overrides the settings
  for the standard streams
- mention concrete examples of things that do and don't get their
  text encoding assumptions adjusted by the two text encoding
  assumption override techniques
(cherry picked from commit 1bcb8a6368)

Co-authored-by: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>
2018-06-09 00:13:53 -07:00
..
NEWS.d bpo-33409: Clarify PEP 538/540 relationship (GH-7534) 2018-06-09 00:13:53 -07:00
ACKS bpo-33542: Ignore DUID in uuid.get_node on Windows. (GH-6922) 2018-05-20 08:40:10 -07:00
coverity_model.c merge 3.5 (#28184) 2016-09-19 22:17:16 -07:00
gdbinit [3.7] bpo-29673: fix gdb scripts pystack and pystackv (GH-6126) (GH-6399) 2018-04-06 18:14:29 -04:00
HISTORY s/the the/the/ (GH-6287) 2018-03-28 06:23:32 -07:00
indent.pro
Porting bpo-30737: Update DevGuide links to new URL (GH-3228) 2017-08-30 09:37:43 -07:00
python-config.in - Issue #18096: Fix library order returned by python-config. 2014-10-02 02:00:14 +02:00
python-config.sh.in closes bpo-22140: Prevent double substitution of prefix in python-config.sh (#3769) 2017-09-26 22:45:06 -07:00
python-wing3.wpr
python-wing4.wpr
python-wing5.wpr Issue 17457: extend test discovery to support namespace packages 2013-11-23 13:29:23 +00:00
python.man bpo-17232: Clarify docs for -O and -OO command line options (GH-5839) 2018-02-24 19:24:08 -08:00
python.pc.in
README bpo-32159: Revert Misc/svnmap.txt (#4639) 2017-11-29 18:58:33 +01:00
README.AIX Replace KB unit with KiB (#4293) 2017-11-08 14:44:44 -08:00
README.coverity
README.valgrind Add PYTHONMALLOC env var 2016-03-14 12:04:26 +01:00
SpecialBuilds.txt Issue #28799: Update Misc/SpecialBuilds.txt 2016-11-28 12:06:13 +01:00
svnmap.txt bpo-32159: Revert Misc/svnmap.txt (#4639) 2017-11-29 18:58:33 +01:00
valgrind-python.supp bpo-32889: update valgrind suppressions (GH-5779) 2018-02-20 22:27:38 -08:00
vgrindefs

Python Misc subdirectory
========================

This directory contains files that wouldn't fit in elsewhere.  Some
documents are only of historic importance.

Files found here
----------------

ACKS                    Acknowledgements
gdbinit                 Handy stuff to put in your .gdbinit file, if you use gdb
HISTORY                 News from previous releases -- oldest last
indent.pro              GNU indent profile approximating my C style
NEWS                    News for this release (for some meaning of "this")
Porting                 Mini-FAQ on porting to new platforms
python-config.in        Python script template for python-config
python.man              UNIX man page for the python interpreter
python.pc.in            Package configuration info template for pkg-config
python-wing*.wpr        Wing IDE project file
README                  The file you're reading now
README.AIX              Information about using Python on AIX
README.coverity         Information about running Coverity's Prevent on Python
README.valgrind         Information for Valgrind users, see valgrind-python.supp
SpecialBuilds.txt       Describes extra symbols you can set for debug builds
svnmap.txt              Map of old SVN revs and branches to hg changeset ids,
                        help history-digging
valgrind-python.supp    Valgrind suppression file, see README.valgrind
vgrindefs               Python configuration for vgrind (a generic pretty printer)