Re: [Tutor] Program work fine in IDLE but not once compile from Py2exe

[Magnus Lycka]

> I have the following function that works fine within IDLE but not  the 
> exe version compile under Py2exe.

> LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding

You need to tell py2exe to include the appropriate
codec to convert between Unicode and 8-bit ASCII.
For us that would be cp437, and for Sweden cp850,
but I'm not sure about Canada, and I don't know the
py2exe way of doing it from the top of my head.

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