WTF? Printing unicode strings

[John Salerno]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     John> Hmm, not that this helps me any :)
> 
>     >>>> import sys
>     >>>> sys.stdout.encoding
>     John> 'cp1252'
> 
> Sure it does.  You can print Unicode objects which map to cp1252.  I assume
> that means you're on Windows or that for some perverse reason you have your
> Mac's Terminal window set to cp1252.  (Does it go there?  I'm at work right
> now so I can't check).
> 
> Skip

You're right, I'm on XP. I just couldn't make sense of the lookup call, 
although some of the names looked like .NET classes.