"Stuart McGraw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, does raw_input() ever return unicode objects and if > so, under what conditions? > It returns unicode if reading from sys.stdin returns unicode.
Unfortunately, I can't tell you how to make sys.stdin return unicode for use with raw_input. I tried what I thought should work and as you can see it messed up the buffering on stdin. Does anyone else know how to wrap sys.stdin so it returns unicode but is still unbuffered? Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Sep 19 2006, 09:52:17) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys, codecs >>> sys.stdin.encoding 'cp437' >>> sys.stdin = codecs.getreader(sys.stdin.encoding)(sys.stdin) >>> raw_input() hello world still going? ^Z ^Z u'hello world' >>> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
