Thank you, Dave, for looking at my problem, and for correcting me on my top posting.
See below: On Wed, November 14, 2012 12:34 pm, Dave Angel wrote: > On 11/14/2012 03:10 PM, Marilyn Davis wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >> Last year, I was helped so that this ran nicely on my 2.6: >> >> >> #! /usr/bin/env python >> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- >> # necessary for python not to complain about "¥" >> >> >> symbol = unichr(165) print unicode(symbol) >> >> --- end of code --- >> >> >> But, now on my 2.7, and on 2.6 when I tried reinstalling it, I get: >> >> >> bash-3.2$ ./uni_test.py ./uni_test.py >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "./uni_test.py", line 6, in <module> >> print unicode(symbol) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode >> character u'\xa5' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) bash-3.2$ >> >> Can anyone please help? It says 'ascii' codec? Shouldn't it be seeing >> 'utf-8'? >> >> >> I can't imagine it matters but I'm on an imac now and before I was on >> Ubuntu. >> >> >> Thank you, >> >> >> Marilyn Davis >> >> >> >> >> > > You top-posted your message. If you need to quote something, please put > your new text after what you're quoting. > > Try the following in your 2.7 interpreter: > > >>>> import sys print sys.stdout.encoding > UTF-8 > > > If you don't see UTF-8, then there's a discrepancy between what you > think the terminal is doing, and what Python thinks. You're right, I get this: bash-3.2$ python Python 2.7.3 (v2.7.3:70274d53c1dd, Apr 9 2012, 20:52:43) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys import sys >>> print sys.stdout.encoding print sys.stdout.encoding US-ASCII >>> > > Somebody familiar with the Mac might be able to tell you how to fix it > right, but you could try sys.stdout.encoding = "UTF-8" > > and see if it changes your symptoms. and, your good idea didn't work: >>> sys.stdout.encoding="UTF-8" sys.stdout.encoding="UTF-8" Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: readonly attribute >>> Goodness! I didn't expect it to be a Mac thing. So, on a Windows machine, running Python 2.6.6, sys.stdout.encoding is 'cp1252', yet the code runs fine. On Ubuntu with 2.7, it's 'UTF-8' and it runs just fine. I find this most mysterious. Thank you for any help to get it running on my Mac. Marilyn > > -- > > > DaveA _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor