> can someone quickly tell me what the encoding of __file__ is? I can't > find it in the documentation. > > BTW, I'm using Python 2.5.1 on WIndows XP and Vista.
It's platform-specific - the same encoding that is used for file names (i.e. sys.getfilesystemencoding()). On Windows, it will be "mbcs", which in turn is installation-specific - on Western European/US installations, it's "windows-1252". Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
