Hello
See below, I was surprised about finding hidden function in module sys: karim@Requiem4Dream: python2.7 Python 2.7.1rc1 (r271rc1:86455, Nov 16 2010, 21:53:40) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.getdefaultencoding() 'ascii' >>> sys.setdefaultencoding() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'setdefaultencoding' >>> karim@Requiem4Dream:~/build/OpenProcessManager/test$ python2.7 Python 2.7.1rc1 (r271rc1:86455, Nov 16 2010, 21:53:40) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.getdefaultencoding() 'ascii' >>> sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'setdefaultencoding' >>> reload(sys) <module 'sys' (built-in)> >>> sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8') >>> sys.getdefaultencoding() 'utf-8' >>> :-\ ??? _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor