_enablelegacywindowsfsencoding

Changes the filesystem encoding and error handler to ‘mbcs’ and ‘replace’ respectively, for consistency with versions of Python prior to 3.6.

Syntax

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sys._enablelegacywindowsfsencoding()

See Also

filesystem encoding and error handler PYTHONLEGACYWINDOWSFSENCODING sys.getfilesystemencoding() sys.getfilesystemencodeerrors() Availability