unicode by default

[harrismh777]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> It does not matter how Python stored the unicode internally. Does this
> help? Your intent is signalled by how you open the file.

Very much, actually, thanks.  I was missing the 'internal' piece, and 
did not realize that if I didn't specify the encoding on the open that 
python would pull the default encoding from locale...


kind regards,
m harris