Robert> Because sys.stdout.encoding isn't determined by your Python
Robert> configuration, but your terminal's.
Learn something every day. I take it "646" is an alias for "ascii" (or vice
versa)?
% python
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Feb 23 2006, 12:48:31)
[GCC 3.4.1] on sunos5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.stdout.encoding
'646'
>>> import codecs
>>> codecs.lookup("646")
(<built-in function ascii_encode>, <built-in function ascii_decode>, <class
encodings.ascii.StreamReader at 0x819aa4c>, <class encodings.ascii.StreamWriter
at 0x819aa1c>)
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