Duncan Booth skrev: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The call to sys.getdefaultencoding() returns ascii. Since I can enter > > the characters åöä on the command line in Pydef/Eclipse doesn't that > > mean that the stdin is not ascii? What should I do? > > > I think that depends on what sort of script you are writing. > > If it is just something for personal use on a single machine, or if you > know that the same encoding is going to be used on all systems where you > have this problem, then you could hardwire the encoding to whatever it > should be (maybe 'latin1'). > > If it is to be used across a variety of systems with different encodings > then you'll have to figure out some way to find the correct encoding.
Yeah I'm only learning python so I think I can go with latin1. Cheers, Aine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
