UnicodeError...

[Martin v. Loewis]

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

> This
> problem is dealt in Python FAQ in chapter 4.102. and the following
> solution is given:
> 
> >  # Set the string encoding used by the Unicode implementation.
> >     # The default is 'ascii'
> >     encoding = "ascii" # <= CHANGE THIS if you wish
[...]
> The problem is, that sys doesn't include setdefaultencoding(). 

I don't believe you. Did you try to modify this very location in
site.py? At that point, sys.setdefaultencoding is still present.

> Tell me, please, how to get that Unicode build.

I'm pretty sure you have a Unicode build.

> When running Python in command line mode, there is no UnicodeError and
> print 'åäö' returns the expected result: 'åäö'. Why there is such a
> difference?

IDLE is written with Tkinter, which returns Unicode strings to the
interpreter; the interpreter then needs to convert them into source
code (which means byte strings). The command line interpreter reads
from the console window, and already gets byte strings - hence no need
to convert them.

Regards,
Martin