WTF? Printing unicode strings

[Robert Kern]

John Salerno wrote:

> AFAIK, I'm all ASCII (at least, I never made explicit changes to the 
> default Python install), so how am I able to print out the character?

Because sys.stdout.encoding isn't determined by your Python configuration, but
your terminal's.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
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