Google:

  Natural Language user searches based on "intent of code"

  Module Name/Function names: user wants more details on something he already knows exists

  Exception Name: Great, finds you the exception definition just like any other Class name.

    Googling for "UnicodeEncodingError Python" gives me a link to the 2.7 documentation which says at the top "this is not yet updated for python 3" - I dont know how important this is

    Googling for "UnicodeEncodingError Python 3" gives http://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/howto/unicode.html

    This is a great document. It explains encoding very well.

   The unicode tutorial doesnt mention anything about the terminal output encoding to STDOUT, and whilst this is obvious after a while, it is not always clear the printing to the terminal is the cause of the attempt to encode as ascii during a print statement.

   To some extent, the unicode tutorial doesnt have the practical specifics that are being discussed in this thread which is targetted at "learning curve into Python"

I think the most important points here are:

  The exception knows what version of Python its from (which allows the language to make changes

  It would be nice to have a wiki type document targetted by the exception/error

    Sections like:

• "Python Official Docs"
• Murgh, Fix This NOW, Dont care how dirty
• Contributed Docs we have none and loved/stack overflow etc...
• Discussions from python-dev / python ideas
• PEPs that apply