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Unicode problem

Duncan Booth duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk
Thu Mar 21 04:14:30 EST 2002 
gargravarr at whoever.com wrote in news:3c98faad.27124282 at news.tiscali.no:

>>if you don't tell Python what 8-bit encoding you want
>>to use for a Unicode string, Python will assume ASCII.
> 
> How do I tell Python what 8-bit encoding I want to use ? Can I tell
> Python so I don't have to use encode?

site.py uses sys.setdefaultencoding to set the default encoding but it then 
does 'del sys.setdefaultencoding' to stop anyone else messing with it.

Your options (entirely at your own risk):
  Edit site.py to select a different default encoding.
  Edit site.py to remove the line that deletes sys.setdefaultencoding
  OR to recover a reference to setdefaultencoding:
     import sys; reload(sys)

I have no idea whether it is safe to call setdefaultencoding multiple 
times, although a quick play with the interpreter didn't reveal any massive 
problems. I also have no idea what effect reload(sys) may have on anything. 
I didn't even know you could reload a builtin module until I tried it.

-- 
Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
int month(char *p){return(124864/((p[0]+p[1]-p[2]&0x1f)+1)%12)["\5\x8\3"
"\6\7\xb\1\x9\xa\2\0\4"];} // Who said my code was obscure?
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