======python 2.6 ======
import sys
print sys.getdefaultencoding()
s = u"\u20ac"
print s.encode("utf-8")
$ python2.6 1test.py
ascii
€
=====python 3.1 =======
import sys
print(sys.getdefaultencoding())
s = "€"
print(s.encode("utf-8"))
print(s)
$ python3.1 1test.py
utf-8
b'\xe2\x82\xac'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "1test.py", line 7, in <module>
print(s)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u20ac' in
position 0: ordinal not in range(12
I don't understand why I'm getting an encode error in python 3.1.
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