dieter wrote: > > It looks strange that you can set "s.encoding" after you have > called "s.get" - but, as you apparently get an error related to > the "gbk" encoding, it seems to work.
Ooo! Sorry, typo - that was outside the function but before the call. Unfortunately whilst improving my function for Usenet, i screwed it up even further. (just ignore that, as you have) to the rest of your answer - many thanks, will do. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
