Hi! The following program in an UTF-8 encoded file:
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- FIELDS = ("Fächer", ) FROZEN_FIELDS = frozenset(FIELDS) FIELDS_SET = set(FIELDS) print u"Fächer" in FROZEN_FIELDS print u"Fächer" in FIELDS_SET print u"Fächer" in FIELDS gives this output False False Traceback (most recent call last): File "test.py", line 9, in ? print u"FÀcher" in FIELDS UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) Why do the first two print statements succeed and the third one fails with an exception? Why does the use of set/frozenset remove the exception? Thanks, Dennis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list