On Wed, November 14, 2012 1:07 pm, Marilyn Davis wrote: > 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 >
I found this site: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100713130450549 and that fixes it. I would never guessed that! Marilyn _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor