Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 30)

[michele.simionato at gmail.com]

Holger:

> FWIW, i added the recipe back to the online cookbook. It's not
perfectly
> formatted but still useful, i hope.

>   http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/361742

Uhm... on my system I get:

>>> german_ae = unicode('\xc3\xa4', 'utf8')
>>> print german_ae # dunno if it will appear right on Google groups
ä

>>> german_ae.decode('latin1')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in
position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
?? What's wrong?

        Michele Simionato