> Can anybody clue me in to what's going on here? It's as Mark says: the console encoding is cp437 on your system, cp1252.
Windows has *two* default code pages at any point in time: the OEM code page, and the ANSI code page. Either one depends on the Windows release (Western, Japanese, etc.), and can be set by the administrator. The OEM code page is primarily used for the console (and then also as the encoding on the FAT filesystem); the ANSI code page is used in all other places (that don't use Unicode APIs). In addition, the console code page may deviate from the OEM code page, if you run chcp.exe. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
