On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Robert Kern wrote: > On 1/20/11 9:47 AM, Philip Semanchuk wrote: > >> I'm glad that worked for you. Alternatively, it seems like you can set the >> default encoding in site.py which sounds easier than recompiling Python. > > Never do that. It breaks dicts and makes your code non-portable.
I've never been tempted for the very non-portability reason you cite. I didn't know that it would break dicts, though. Thanks for the education. bye Philip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
