Hi, Thanks for the detailed response.
On Jul 1, 2:14 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) If you print a unicode string: > > > > a) str() calls encode(), and encode() tries to convert the unicode > > string to a regular string. encode() uses the default encoding, which > > is ascii. If encode() can't convert a character, then encode() raises > > an exception. > > Yes and no. This is what str() does, but str() isn't called. Instead, > print inspects sys.stdout.encoding, and uses that encoding to encode > the string. That, in turn, may raise an exception (in particular if > sys.stdout.encoding is "ascii" or not set). > Is that the same as print calling encode(u_str, sys.stdout.encoding)
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