25 Oct 2007 17:37:01 GMT, Brent Lievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Greetings, > > I have observed the following (python 2.5.1): > > >>> import sys > >>> print sys.stdout.encoding > UTF-8 > >>> print(u'\u00e9') > é > >>> sys.stdout.write(u'\u00e9\n') > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in > position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> sys.stdout.write(u'\u00e9\n'.encode("UTF-8")) é > Is this correct? My understanding is that print ultimately calls > sys.stdout.write anyway, so I'm confused as to why the Unicode error > occurs in the second case. Can someone explain? you forgot to encode what you are going to "print" :) -- http://noneisyours.marcher.name http://feeds.feedburner.com/NoneIsYours -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list