Hello again, I've investigated a little bit and this is what I found: If I run IDLE and type
>>> import sys >>> sys.stdin.encoding I get 'cp1252' But if I have a whatever.py file (it can even be a blank file), I edit it with IDLE, I press F5 (Run Module) and then type: >>> import sys >>> sys.stdin.encoding I get Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in ? sys.stdin.encoding AttributeError: PyShell instance has no attribute 'encoding' So when I have the following code in a file: # -*- coding: cp1252 -*- import sys text1 = u'espaƱa' text2 = unicode(raw_input(), sys.stdin.encoding) if text1 == text2: print 'same' else: print 'not same' and I press F5 (Run Module) I get: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\test.py", line 4, in ? text2 = unicode(raw_input(), sys.stdin.encoding) AttributeError: PyShell instance has no attribute 'encoding' This same code works if I just double-click it (run it in the windows console) instead of using IDLE. I'm using Python 2.4.3 and IDLE 1.1.3. Armando. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list