print() with unicode strings

[Eric Brunel]

Thomas Guettler wrote:

> Hi!
> 
>  >>>print '?' #(German Umlaut)
> 
> works
> 
> but
> 
>  >>>print u'?'
> 
> does not.
> 
> Is there a reason why print does not accept unicode?
> Why not default to a latin-1 encoding?
> 
> Version:
> 
> Python 2.2 (#1, Dec 31 2001, 15:21:18)
> [GCC 2.95.3-5 (cygwin special)] on cygwin
> 
> thomas

To make latin-1 (a.k.a. iso8859-1) or any other your default 
encoding, create a file named sitecustomize.py somewhere in your PYTHONPATH 
and write in it:

import sys
sys.setdefaultencoding('iso8859-1')

NB: it won't work outside the sitecustomize module (cf. 
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-sys.html#l2h-264 )

HTH
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