python3 - the hardest hello world ever ?

[Paul Boddie]

On 16 Okt, 11:28, Helmut Jarausch <jarau... at igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
wrote:
>
> I meant setting the default encoding which is used by print (e.g.) when
> outputting the internal unicode string to a file.
> As far as I understood, currently I am fixed to setting either
> the 'locale' or to switch settings for each output file (by settting
> the _encoding property.
> I wished I could override the locale settings within a Python script.

You could use the locale module. ;-)

But seriously, I'd like to know whether the program I posted works
with Python 2.x because there could be differences between 2.x and
3.x, and we'd obviously like to solve your problems regardless of
which Python version you're using.

Paul