Encodings and printing unicode

[Kent Johnson]

Fuzzyman wrote:
> How does the print statement decode unicode strings itis passed ? (By
> that I mean which encoding does it use).

sys.stdout.encoding

> Under windows it doesn't appear to use defaultencoding. On my system
> the default encoding is ascii, yet the terminal encoding is latin1 (or
> cp1252 or whatever, but not ascii). This means that print '£' works
> fine, yet unicode('£') will raise the UnicodeDecodeError.

This uses sys.defaultencoding

Kent