Dennis Benzinger wrote: >>> shadows the error of not setting sys.defaultencoding()? >> >> You can't set the default encoding. If you could, then scripts that run >> on your machine wouldn't run on mine. >> [...] > > As Serge Orlov wrote in one of his posts you _can_ set the default > encoding (at least in site.py). See > <http://docs.python.org/lib/module-sys.html>
yes, but you're not supposed to do that, for several reasons, including the reasons Robert provided: if you mess with the interpreter defaults, code you write isn't portable, and code written by others may not work on your machine. the interpreter isn't fully encoding agnostic either; things are not guaranteed to work properly if you're not using the default. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
