Rewrite Python import machinery to use unicode

Lib/distutils/file_util.py

Index: Lib/distutils/file_util.py
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/file_util.py b/Lib/distutils/file_util.py
index 3a71bfd1ac27c622549e9776cd8f4ab2cc6eed92..ceb16b3cd9403c2c0dcab4b319f6b554917dd390 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/file_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/file_util.py
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ def write_file(filename, contents):
     """Create a file with the specified name and write 'contents' (a
     sequence of strings without line terminators) to it.
     """
-    f = open(filename, "w")
+    f = open(filename, "w", encoding="utf-8", errors="surrogateescape")

[Antoine Pitrou, 2010/07/30 13:35:47]

Why the hardcoding to utf-8?

[haypo, 2010/07/30 20:47:04]

utf-8 is maybe not needed, only errors.

[amaury, 2010/07/31 11:33:01]

What is this function used for?

[merwok, 2010/07/31 22:15:40]

distutils is feature-frozen, and this is arguably a new feature, so I don’t know
if it will fly.

[merwok, 2010/08/10 21:40:30]

Distutils writes files in UTF-8; it’s undocumented I think. See #9561 opened by
Haypo today.

     for line in contents:
         f.write(line + "\n")
     f.close()