[IPython-dev] Error in test_unicode for InputSplitter

[Brian Granger]

Python 2.6.5 |CUSTOM| (r265:79063, May 28 2010, 15:13:03)
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IPython 0.11.alpha1.git -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
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In [1]: import sys

In [2]: sys.getdefaultencoding()
Out[2]: 'ascii'

This is EPD on the Mac...

Brian

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2010-10-29 19:26 , Robert Kern wrote:
>> On 2010-10-29 18:48 , MinRK wrote:
>>> Check the default encoding.  It could be that your Python's default encoding is
>>> ascii, or some other such thing, causing a problem.
>>>
>>> sys.getdefaultencoding()
>>>
>>> Somethings this is utf8, sometimes it's ascii.
>>
>> It should never, ever be anything but ascii. If you have it set to something
>> else, you have a broken Python.
>
> Or rather, on Python 2, it must always be ascii. On Python 3, it must always be
> utf-8.
>
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> Robert Kern
>
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