error when printing a UTF-8 string (python 2.6.2)

Peter Otten __peter__ at web.de
Wed Apr 21 07:28:19 EDT 2010


fab at slick.airforce-one.org wrote:

> I have taken the easy way out, I read on a page that python 3 worked
> by default in UTF-8, so I downloaded and installed it.

Just a quick reminder: UTF-8 is not the same as unicode. Python3 works in 
unicode and by default uses UTF-8 to read from or write into files.

Peter



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