> I meant setting the default encoding which is used by print (e.g.) when > outputting the internal unicode string to a file.
Having such a thing would be conceptually wrong. What encoding should be used depends on the file - different files may have different encodings. When opening a file, you need to specify the encoding. > As far as I understood, currently I am fixed to setting either > the 'locale' or to switch settings for each output file (by settting > the _encoding property. That's not true. You can also specify the encoding when opening the file > I wished I could override the locale settings within a Python script. You can monkey-patch locale.getpreferredencoding, which is used when determining what encoding to use when opening new files. I don't recommend doing so, though. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
