"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Stuart McGraw schrieb: > > So, does raw_input() ever return unicode objects and if > > so, under what conditions? > > At the moment, it only returns unicode objects when invoked > in the IDLE shell, and only if the character entered cannot > be represented in the locale's charset.
Thanks for the answer. Also, if anyone has a solution for Duncan Booth's attempt to wrap stdin, I would find it very useful too! "Duncan Booth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "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
