Terry Reedy wrote:
It does not matter how Python stored the unicode internally. Does this help? Your intent is signalled by how you open the file.
Very much, actually, thanks. I was missing the 'internal' piece, and did not realize that if I didn't specify the encoding on the open that python would pull the default encoding from locale...
kind regards, m harris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
