python3 - the hardest hello world ever ?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Still, I wished it were possible call sys.setdefaultencoding
> at the very beginning of a script.
> 
> Why isn't that possible?

The default encoding was used when combining byte-oriented
text and unicode-oriented text. Such combination is no longer
supported, hence the notion of a default encoding
has disappeared. You have to perform conversion between bytes
and strings now explicitly.

Regards,
Martin