Sönmez Kartal wrote:
> 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?
sys.setdefaultencoding is purposely deleted from the sys module after
it's loaded because you really shouldn't be using it. The reload() call
restores the deleted attribute.
If you'd like a less brittle solution to your encoding issue, explain
what the issue was, and people here can probably help you find a better
solution.
STeVe
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