"Ben Edwards (lists)" <lists at videonetwork.org> wrote: > I am using python 2.4 on Ubuntu dapper, I am working through Dive > into Python. ... > Any insight? > Ben Did you follow all the instructions, or did you try to call sys.setdefaultencoding interactively? See: http://diveintopython.org/xml_processing/unicode.html#kgp.unicode.4.1 hope this helps, max