On 26 Apr 2005 13:39:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dumbkiwi) wrote: >Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >> Dumbkiwi wrote: >> >> >> Just encode the data in the target encoding before passing it to >> >> os.popen():
> >Anyway, from your post, I've done some more digging, and found the >command: > >sys.setappdefaultencoding() > >which I've used, and it's fixed the problem (I think). > Dumb Kiwi, eh? Maybe not so dumb -- where'd you find sys.setappdefaultencoding()? I'm just a dumb Aussie [1]; I looked in the 2.4.1 docs and also did import sys; dir(sys) and I can't spot it. In any case, how could the magical sys.setappdefaultencoding() fix your problem? From your description, your problem appeared to be that you didn't know what encoding to use. What is the essential difference between send(u_data.encode('polish')) and sys.setappdefaultencoding('polish') ... send(u_data) [1]: Now that's *TWO* contenders for TautologyOTW :-) Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list