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diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst index 81d118b68e..c1130e4cd2 100644 --- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst +++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst @@ -442,11 +442,20 @@ These environment variables influence Python's behavior. import of source modules. +.. envvar:: PYTHONFSENCODING + + If this is set before running the intepreter, it overrides the encoding used + for the filesystem encoding (see :func:`sys.getfilesystemencoding`). + + .. versionadded:: 3.2 + + .. envvar:: PYTHONIOENCODING - Overrides the encoding used for stdin/stdout/stderr, in the syntax - ``encodingname:errorhandler``. The ``:errorhandler`` part is optional and - has the same meaning as in :func:`str.encode`. + If this is set before running the intepreter, it overrides the encoding used + for stdin/stdout/stderr, in the syntax ``encodingname:errorhandler``. The + ``:errorhandler`` part is optional and has the same meaning as in + :func:`str.encode`. For stderr, the ``:errorhandler`` part is ignored; the handler will always be ``'backslashreplace'``. |