[gentoo-user] Re: python wide-unicode problem

[walt]

On 01/21/2011 12:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:

Hi,

using Python3.1, if I say
import site

I get

   File "/usr/lib64/python3.1/site.py", line 472, in setencoding
     sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding) # Needs Python Unicode build !
ValueError: Can only set default encoding to utf-8

But

emerge -vp dev-lang/python-3.1.3  shows
USE="doc gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline sqlite ssl threads tk (wide-
unicode) xml -build -examples -wininst"

Why is 'wide-unicode' in parentheses?

Hm.  Try using a different tool, like equery u python.  Note the warning
about changing that useflag.