Roger Upole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: It introduces high characters that cause comparisons to fail under IDLE that succeed from the normal python prompt:
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 21 2008, 13:11:45) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import string >>> u'a' in string.letters True IDLE 1.2.2 >>> import string >>> u'a' in string.letters Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module> u'a' in string.letters UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x83 in position 52: ordinal not in range(128) Or am I misunderstanding how the locale works with string comparisons ? _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3240> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com