Joel Goldstick wrote: > I was reading this: http://diveintopython.org/xml_processing/unicode.html > > and tried the exercise: > >>>> s = u'La Pe\xf1a' [image: 1] >>>> print s [image: 2] > Traceback (innermost last): > File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ? > UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128) >>>> print s.encode('latin-1') [image: 3] > La Peña > > [image: > [1]<http://diveintopython.org/xml_processing/unicode.html#kgp.unicode.2.1> > > But oddly enough, when I typed it into my python shell I did NOT get the > UnicodeError, and I wonder why not: > > Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56) > [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> s = u'La Pe\xf1a' >>>> print s > La Peña >>>> import sys >>>> sys.getdefaultencoding() > 'ascii' >> > > > Maybe an earlier version of python produces the error, but not 2.6.5?
This works a bit differently, probably since Python 2.3. See http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#file.encoding The "old" behaviour may still bite you when you redirect stdout. $ python -c"print u'Pe\xf1a'" Peña $ python -c"print u'Pe\xf1a'" > /dev/null Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128) Peter _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
