Sérgio Monteiro Basto <sergi...@sapo.pt> writes: > Nobody wrote: > > >> Exactly the opposite , if python don't know the encoding should not > >> try decode to ASCII.
Are you advocating that Python should refuse to write characters unless the encoding is specified? I could sympathise with that, but currently that's not what Python does; instead it defaults to the ASCII codec. > > What should it decode to, then? > > UTF-8, as in tty But when you explicitly redirect to a file, it's *not* going to a TTY. It's going to a file whose encoding isn't known unless you specify it. -- \ “Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature | `\ cannot be fooled.” —Richard P. Feynman | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
