Python 2.6.1 (r261:67517, Dec 4 2008, 16:51:00) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> x = u'\u9876' >>> x u'\u9876'
# As expected Python 3.0 (r30:67507, Dec 3 2008, 20:14:27) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win 32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> x = '\u9876' >>> x Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\python30\lib\io.py", line 1491, in write b = encoder.encode(s) File "C:\python30\lib\encodings\cp850.py", line 19, in encode return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0] UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u9876' in position 1: character maps to <undefined> # *NOT* as expected (by me, that is) Is this the intended outcome? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list