> > I still don't know why there is such a encoding mess on Python. For me > this > > totally neglects the statement that python code is easily portable or > executable > > on other platforms. > > I don't think this is entirely fair. For example at the start you had a > file containing cp1252 data but told Python it was utf-8. You can't > really expect Python to just do the right thing in such circumstances. Here you are right. I was (without knowing it) doeing the wrong thing. Well, my judgement was based on a confusion that I haven't been able to clear so far:
At first my file was encoded differently than the python default encoding and I coded even a different encoding in the file head. After I'd adaped all this correctly my code worked well. I tried to use the same code interactively on the IPython shell. As I said from my previous post, the shell uses again a different encoding. Therefore, the same code that worked well from file did fail. When I found out that I could set the default encoding to UTF-8 you warned me of a lesser portability. I am totally lost: * python has ascii as default encoding * my linux uses UTF-8 (therefore all files created on linux are UTF-8) * windows uses cp1250 * IPtyhon something else: on the machine where I am currently on stdin is set to cp850 So what encoding to I use to display and process characters that exeeed the standard english alphabet? > Does you IDL code include non-ascii characters? Perhaps you would do > better if you stuck with ascii for your Python source code, too - there > is no need to include non-ascii characters directly, you can use \x > string escapes to insert them into your strings. My initial question was: 1) get a coordinate (DEG° MIN' SEC'') as input from user via easygui 2) split that string into its subscripts: degrees, minutes and secons 3) do some processing of the 3 varaibles 4) print the output with easygui. I am not really interested which is the best encoding. I want to know: * how I do this that I don't get a encoding error? * how do I code it that the code runs on linux and windows from file and in IPython Thanks again for your support. I don't want any misunderstandings. You were a good tutor to me and are helping patiently many user stepping into python. Kind regards, Timmie _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
