[Tutor] A unicode print question

[Jerry Hill]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick at gmail.com>wrote:

> I was reading this: http://diveintopython.org/xml_processing/unicode.html
>
> and tried the exercise:
>
<snip>

> But oddly enough, when I typed it into my python shell I did NOT get the
> UnicodeError, and I wonder why not:
>

I believe that python is checking the encoding for stdout.  Try this:

print sys.stdout.encoding

When you attempt to print a unicode string, python will attempt to encode it
based on what it autodetected about your terminal.

-- 
Jerry
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