Ben Edwards (lists) wrote:
> Firstly sys.setdefaultencoding('iso−8859−1') does not work, I have to do
> sys.setdefaultencoding = 'iso−8859−1'That "works", but has no effect. You bind the variable sys.setdefaultencoding to some value, but that value is never used for anything (do sys.getdefaultencoding() to see what I mean). You could just as well write sys.standardkodierung = 'iso-8859-1' > secondly the following does not give a 'UnicodeError: ASCII encoding > error:', and I would expect ti to. In fact it prints out the n with ~ > above it fine: > > sys.setdefaultencoding = 'ascii' > s = u'La Pe\xf1a' > print s > > Any insight? The print statement uses sys.stdout.encoding, not the default encoding. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
