On Sep 1, 8:19 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:27:54 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > > I doubt the OP 'chose' cp437. Why does Python using cp437 even when the > > default encoding is utf-8? > > > On WinXP > > >>> sys.getdefaultencoding() > > 'utf-8' > > >>> s='\u012b' > > >>> s > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > > File "C:\Program Files\Python30\lib\io.py", line 1428, in write > > b = encoder.encode(s) > > File "C:\Program Files\Python30\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 19, in > > encode > > return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0] > > UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u012b' in > > position > > 1: character maps to <undefined> > > Most likely because Python figured out that the terminal expects cp437. > What does `sys.stdout.encoding` say? > > > To put it another way, how can one 'choose' utf-8 for display to screen? > > If the terminal expects cp437 then displaying utf-8 might give some > problems. > > Ciao, > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
So, it is not a problem with the program, but a problem when I print it out. sys.stdout.encoding does say cp437. Now, when I don't print anything out, the program hangs. I will try this again and let the board know the results. Thanks for all of your insight. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list