[Pythonmac-SIG] codecs

[Yannis Haralambous]

Thank you Just for your answer,

when I do:

>unicode("a","utf8")

I get:

>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding

even after an "import encodings", and an "import codecs"

I'm using:
>Python 2.3 (#1, Sep  8 2003, 10:13:34) 
>[GCC 3.1 20020420 (prerelease)] on darwin
under MacOS X 10.2.6

I checked and there is indeed a codecs.py in /sw/lib/python2.3 and an
encodings directory  /sw/lib/python2.3/encodings/

is this a bug in the python distribution for Darwin? Or am I doing
something wrong?

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