Hello, I've had an encoding issue and solved it by "sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')"...
My first try wasn't successful since setdefaultencoding is not named when I imported sys module. After, I import sys module, I needed to write "reload(sys)" also. I wonder why we need to call "reload(sys)" to get setdefaultencoding named? Happy coding -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list