On 21/03/13 11:15, Terry Reedy wrote:
getting back to CP versus IDLE...
From IDLE:
print('\x80')
print('\xc8')
È
Impressed? You should be. Open Start menu / Python33 / Python (command line)
and both of those result (modulo the specific character) in
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character
'\xc8' in position 0: character maps to <undefined>
Terry, you have just done something I didn't think was possible: you've changed
my personal opinion about IDLE. On the rare, rare occasions where I've had to
use Python interactively on Windows, I use the standard python.exe command
prompt, which I thought was easier than learning the (to me) quirks of IDLE's
UI.
You've just given me a reason to use IDLE.
I also note that in the last few weeks, I've seen at least two instances that I
recall of a beginner on the tu...@python.org mailing list being utterly
confused by Python's Unicode handling because the Windows command prompt is
unable to print Unicode strings.
Thanks Terry.
--
Steven
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