Dennis Benzinger a écrit : > No, byte strings contain characters which are at least 8-bit wide > <http://docs.python.org/ref/types.html>. But I don't understand what > Python is trying to decode and why the exception says something about > the ASCII codec, because my file is encoded with UTF-8.
[addendum to others replies] The file encoding directive is used by Python to convert u"xxx" strings into unicode objects using right conversion rules when compiling the code. When a string is written simply with "xxx", its a 8 bits string with NO encoding data associated. When these strings must be converted they are considered to be using sys.getdefaultencoding() [generally ascii - forced ascii in python 2.5] So a short reply: the utf8 directive has no effect on 8 bits strings, use unicode strings to manage correctly non-ascii texts. A+ Laurent. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
