newbie: unicode

[Fredrik Lundh]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> > how are you executing that command?
> >
> > there's no way that piece of code can give that error message,
> > as long as ">>>" is an ordinary Python 2.x interpreter prompt, and
> > you haven't been hacking around in the site configuration files...
>
> You get that error in IDLE.

does IDLE's prompt really qualify as "an ordinary interpreter prompt"
if it doesn't behave properly?

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