On 7 Jan., 23:06, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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".
Thanks, I'll then use sys.getfilesystemencoding() to decode _file__ and re-encode into utf-8, which is the default encoding of all strings in our software, as we deal a bit with Chinese terms. Windows-1252 on my box. I just created a directory containing Chinese characters (on Vista), and whoa, files opened with IDLE are empty, import doesn't find modules in that directory. Of course Windows-1252 can't encode these ... But I understand that Python 3 will clean this up? Kind regards, Sebastian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
