ANN: pyfaq 1.0b1 is now available

[John Machin]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> After incorporating more than 60 comments, adding a bunch of new
> articles, and having made a ludicrous amount of minor edits and
> tweaks, I'm happy to announce a first "beta" release of the new
> Python FAQ:
>
>      http://effbot.org/pyfaq/
>
> Many thanks to everyone who's contributed this far!
>

UnicodeDecodeError, UnicodeEncodeError:

I was about to ask mildly the other day whether a c.l.py poster had
RTFFAQ when I thought "Hmmm long while since I'd RTFFAQ myself, better
have a peep". Shock/horror; couldn't find "UnicodeEncodeError" -- why
not? See below:

FAQ: What does 'UnicodeError: ASCII [decoding,encoding] error: ordinal
not in range(128)' mean?

Python:

Python 2.2.3 (#42, May 30 2003, 18:12:08) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
| >>> str(u'\xff')
UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

Python 2.3.5 (#62, Feb  8 2005, 16:23:02) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)]
on win32
| >>> str(u'\xff')
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xff' in
position 0:
ordinal not in range(128)

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P.S. Great job on the wiki, and yes a search facility a tad smarter
than browser Ctrl-F would be a very good idea!

Cheers,
John