sys.stdin.encoding

[aine_canby at yahoo.com]

Duncan Booth skrev:

> aine_canby at yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > The following line in my code is failing because sys.stdin.encoding is
> > Null.
>
> I'll guess you mean None rather than Null.
>
> > This has only started happening since I started working with
> > Pydef in Eclipse SDK. Any ideas?
> >
> > uni=unicode(word,sys.stdin.encoding)
> >
> You could give it a fallback value:
>
> uni = unicode(word, sys.stdin.encoding or sys.getdefaultencoding())
>
> or even just:
>
> uni = unicode(word, sys.stdin.encoding or 'ascii')
>
> which should be the same in all reasonable universes (although I did get
> bitten recently when someone had changed the default encoding in a system).


Thanks for your help. The problem now is that I cant enter the Swedish
characters åöä etc without getting the following error -

Enter word> Påe
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\workspace\simple\src\main.py", line
25, in <module>
    archive.Test()
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\workspace\simple\src\verb.py", line
192, in Test
    uni=unicode(word,sys.stdin.encoding or sys.getdefaultencoding())
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 1:
ordinal not in range(128)

The call to sys.getdefaultencoding() returns ascii. Since I can enter
the characters åöä on the command line in Pydef/Eclipse doesn't that
mean that the stdin is not ascii? What should I do?

Thanks again,

Aine.