Unicode error in exefied Python script

[Martin v. Löwis]

Christian Bretterklieber <cb at orcl.net> writes:

>   I have now found the difference. When I execute the script,
> sys.getdefaultencoding() returns 'cp1252'. 

So you have edited site.py? You should also undo this edit.

>   Is there another simple method to set the default encoding? 

No. Instead, you should modify your script not to rely on the system
default encoding.

> And what might be the cause for the exefied script to have a
> different encoding?

'ascii' is the factory default for Python. So the question is why you
don't get the factory default.

Regards,
Martin