UnicodeError...

[Martin v. Loewis]

Teemu Luojola <tempe at pp.inet.fi> writes:

> Well, here is the result, when I entered precisely what was told in FAQ:
> 
> >>>> encoding = "ascii"
> >>>> import locale
> >>>> loc = locale.getdefaultlocale()
> >>>> if loc[1]:
> > 	encoding = loc[1]

The FAQ did not tell you enter these statements at the interactive
prompt. It told you to modify the file site.py, which is located on
your hard disk.

> How it is possible, that sys.setdefaultencoding() does not exist?

It's deleted from sys in site.py.

Regards,
Martin