Kent Johnson wrote: > You can, with sys.setdefaultencoding(). See here for discussion of how: > http://blog.ianbicking.org/illusive-setdefaultencoding.html
> and here for arguments that this is a bad idea (mostly because it makes > your code non-portable): > http://faassen.n--tree.net/blog/view/weblog/2005/08/02/0 Thanks for the links. I'm nervous about messing with sys.setdefaultencoding() too - partly because I have no idea what all the implications are. It sure would be nice to be able to just change it for "print" though. Even if it's going to us ascii, it really should use "replace" or "ignore" -- it's much better to get something, rather than an error. It's just a handy utility function after all. Maybe I can re-map print to something like: TerminalEncoding = "utf-8" def uni_print(object): sys.stdout.write(unicode(object).encode(TerminalEncoding)) sys.stdout.write("\n") but print is a statement, rather than a function, so I don't know how to do that. I may start using a utility function like that for my code, though. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
