"JEP 400: UTF-8 by Default" and future of Python

[methane (Inada Naoki)]

@methane

@steve.dower

subprocess.Popen should just deprecate any way to switch to text mode other than specifying encoding . Then once those are gone, the only way users encounter encoding is by explicitly setting it.

Make sense. The difference between text=True and encoding="utf-8" is only 7 characters.
I will create a new vote for deprecating text=True .

I created the new topic about text option.

Deprecating `text` option in subprocess

This thread is spin off from "JEP 400: UTF-8 by Default" and future of Python subprocess module has text=False option. When text=True is passed, locale encoding is used for now. Instead of changing the default encoding, we can deprecate the text option. subprocess.check_output(["ls", "-l"], encoding="utf-8") is little longer than subprocess.check_output(["ls", "-l"], text=True). But the difference is smaller than difference between open(file) and open(file, encoding="utf-8"). How do you thi…