Is there a way to change the default string encoding used by the string.encode() method? My default environment is utf-8 but I need it to be latin-1 to avoid errors like this:
>>> 'Andr\xe9 Ramel'.decode() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 4: ordinal not in range(128) I can't change the code to pass an encoding argument to the decode method because it's someone else's code. Thanks, rg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list