German Umlaut Problem with raw_input in IDLE

[Martin v. Loewis]

Gregor Lingl <glingl at aon.at> writes:

> Hä? Tschüs
[...]
> TypeError: object.readline() returned non-string
[...]
> I must confess, I do not understand the error message.

Apparently, IDLE returns a Unicode object, not a string object.

Regards,
Martin