2009/1/28 "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de>: > Paul Moore wrote: >> Hmm, I just checked and on Windows, it >> appears that sys.getdefaultencoding() is UTF-8. That seems odd - I >> would have thought the majority of Windows systems were NOT set to use >> UTF-8 by default... > > In Python 3, sys.getdefaultencoding() is "utf-8" on all platforms, just > as it was "ascii" in 2.x, on all platforms. The default encoding isn't > used for I/O; check f.encoding to find out what encoding is used to > read the file you are reading.
Thanks for the explanation. It might be clearer to document this a little more explicitly in the docs for open() (on the basis that people using open() are the most likely to be naive about encodings). I'll see if I can come up with an appropriate doc patch. Paul. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
