getdefaultencoding - how to change this?

[John Pinner]

On Jan 20, 4:46 pm, Robert Kern <robert.k... at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Instead, you want to use an encoding declaration in each file:
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> http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#encoding-decla...

All that this does is tell the interpreter how the source file is
encoded, it does not affect default encodings etc.

John
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