Hi, From http://www.pyzine.com/Issue008/Section_Articles/article_Encodings.html#guessing-the-encoding: > The way to access the information about the "normal" encoding used on the > current computer is through the locale module. Before using locale to > retrieve the information you want, you need to call > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ''). Because of the sensitivity of the > underlying C locale module on some platforms, this should only be done once.
Why should the call locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') only be made once? What exactly is the "sensitivity of the underlying C locale module"? Thanks, Michael -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
