Thanks for the quick reply! As I'm sure you can tell, I'm still fairly new to Python. Do you know of a tutorial on how to properly manage unicode in Python, then?
I ran into trouble when trying to run a command containing unicode characters through commands.getoutput()... On 3/15/07, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/14/07, Dougal Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I am having a problem with figuring out how to set utf-8 as the > > default encoding for python. I have found various references to > > sitecustomize.py, but I'm not sure where to put that file. I just > > recently updated to python 2.5 using the .dmg file from python.org. > > > > You really don't want to do that. The default encoding should always > be ASCII, setting it to anything else breaks some invariants. > > The site-packages folder is one place to put stuff. It lives in > /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages > > However, don't do it in this case. The reason you haven't been able to > find a good resource that tells you how to do it is because it's not > the correct thing to do. > > Here's Frederik's thoughts on the setting (and he is certainly an > authority on Python's unicode implementation). > > """ > sys.setdefaultencoding() was added for experimentation during Unicode > development, and should not be used in production code. All sorts of > ugliness can happen if you mess around with the conversion rules > (especially if you use a variable-width encoding). It's not that hard > to write encoding-aware code, really. > """ > > -bob > -- Dougal Graham Home: (709) 753-2831 Cell: (709) 351-0587 _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
