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PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default

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238 points GalaxySnail | 1 comments | 26 Apr 24 11:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.278s | source
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Myrmornis ◴[26 Apr 24 13:08 UTC] No.40169014[source]▶
Hm TIL, I thought that the string encoding argument to .decode() and .encode() was required, but now I see it defaults to "utf-8". Did that change at some point?
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LeoPanthera ◴[26 Apr 24 15:47 UTC] No.40170907[source]▶
> ChatGPT4 says it's always been that way since the beginning of Python3

This is not a reliable way to look up information. It doesn't know when it's wrong.

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1. Myrmornis ◴[28 Apr 24 15:44 UTC] No.40189422[source]▶
I was just being conversational.