unicode strings and strings mix

[Gerhard Häring]

Roman Suzi wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Is there any way to define "default" encoding

Yes.

> so the following error will not happen?
> 
>>>> unichr(0x3345) + "×Á×Á×"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

'x' and 'A' are in the ASCII range, so this shouldn't produce an
exception. I also cannot reproduce it with sys.getdefaultencoding() ==
"ascii".

Gerhard
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reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))