Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: Why is it a problem? Encoding must be a text string: encoding='utf-8' works with both Python 2 and 3.
Or if you used "from __future__ import unicode_literals", str('utf-8') works as well. ---------- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15811> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com