Timmie wrote: > OK, I found out. >> Since it didn't work in IPython as well I assume that I need to change the >> encoding of the IPython shell to UTF-8, too. Still need to find out where. > Put a file called 'sitecustomize.py' into any directory on your PYTHONPATH. > > write the folowing two lines in that file: > > import sys > sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')
Just be aware that this affects portability of your scripts; they will require this same change to run on other systems. For this reason you might want to change the code instead. If you give a specific example of what is failing I will try to help. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor