How can I specify encoding for the built-in eval function? Here is the documentation:
http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html It tells that the "expression" parameter is a string. But tells nothing about the encoding. Same is true for: execfile, eval and compile. The basic problem: - expressions need to be evaluated by a program - expressions are managed through a web based interface. The browser supports UTF-8, the database also supports UTF-8. The user needs to be able to enter string expressions in different languages, and store them in the database - expressions are for filtering emails, and the emails can contain any character in any encoding I tried to use eval with/without unicode strings and it worked. Example: >>> eval( u'"徹底したコスト削減 ÁÍŰŐÜÖÚÓÉ трирова"' ) == eval( '"徹底し たコスト削減 ÁÍŰŐÜÖÚÓÉ трирова"' ) True The above test was made on Unbuntu Linux and gnome-terminal. gnome-terminal does support unicode. What would happen under Windows? I'm also confused how it is related to PEP 0263. I always get a warning when I try to enter '"徹底したコスト削減 ÁÍŰŐÜÖÚÓÉ трирова"' in a source file without "# -*- coding: " specified. Why is it not the same for eval? Why it is not raising an exception (or why the encoding does not need to be specified?) Thanks, Laszlo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
