[issue27915] Use 'ascii' instead of 'us-ascii' to bypass lookup machinery

STINNER Victor added the comment: Since "us-ascii" got a fast-path thanks to the issue #27938, this patch is not needed anymore. -- resolution: -> out of date status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue27915] Use 'ascii' instead of 'us-ascii' to bypass lookup machinery

STINNER Victor added the comment: It looks like the email module has a special usage of the "us-ascii" encoding name. It's not just an alias to "ascii". So I proposed a patch implementing the fast-path differently in the Python builtin codecs: see my issue #27938. The xml.etree module has spec

[issue27915] Use 'ascii' instead of 'us-ascii' to bypass lookup machinery

New submission from Ville Skyttä: https://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings There are a bunch of other us-ascii occurrences in the tree; this patch covers the ones that are not user visible in a way that could cause problems or changes in behavior. -- files: asc