On 11/14/2012 04:07 PM, Marilyn Davis wrote:
> <snip>
>
> 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.
>
>
To resolve something like this, I'd start searching the internet (and
especially the python.org site) for a string like:
python sys.stdout.encoding
https://drj11.wordpress.com/2007/05/14/python-how-is-sysstdoutencoding-chosen/
According to this page, the encoding is chosen by the environment variable:
LC_CTYPE
set LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8
I have no idea if that's correct, or always correct, but it could be
worth experimenting. (Later note: I think this affects more than just
the terminal, so I'd skip it)
In the meantime, you posted a link to
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100713130450549
which suggests two different environment variables: PYTHONIOENCODING and
LC-CTYPE
Looking at the python.org site is presumably more authoritative. See
http://docs.python.org/2/whatsnew/2.6.html?highlight=pythonioencoding
which says """
The encoding used for standard input, output, and standard error can be
specified by setting the PYTHONIOENCODING
<http://docs.python.org/2/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONIOENCODING>
environment variable before running the interpreter. The value should be a
string in the form <encoding> or <encoding>:<errorhandler>. The /encoding/ part
specifies the encoding’s name, e.g. utf-8 or latin-1; the optional
/errorhandler/ part specifies what to do with characters that can’t be handled
by the encoding, and should be one of “error”, “ignore”, or “replace”.
(Contributed by Martin von Loewis.)"""
Also:
http://docs.python.org/2/using/cmdline.html?highlight=pythonioencoding#PYTHONIOENCODING
<http://docs.python.org/2/using/cmdline.html?highlight=pythonioencoding#PYTHONIOENCODING>
Anyway, just realize that this does NOT change the terminal. If it's not
really utf-8, you'll sometimes get garbage characters. But at least you
shouldn't get the encoding errors.
The *right* answer I figure would be to experiment to find out what the
terminal on your Mac actually uses, and use that in your environment variable.
--
DaveA
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