[Idle-dev] Re: [Tutor] Help concerning raw_input urgently needed!

[Gregor Lingl]

Guido van Rossum schrieb:

>>I think the problem is that Tcl/Tk use Unicode these days,
>>and Python defaults to ISO8859-1.
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>That's not true.
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>>Thus your umlaut is ok for raw_input in python proper. In IDLE, the
>>characters are recieved by Tk, and translated from Unicode. That
>>fails on any non-ASCII value, since these are ambiguous unless a
>>code page is supplied.
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>Try the IDLE from current CVS.  AFAIK the Unicode issues have been
>fixed there.
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>--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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No, the problem addressed has not been fixed there.
I don't know, if Unicode issues are involved, but anyway we find:

Python 2.2.1 (#34, Apr  9 2002, 19:34:33) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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IDLE Fork 0.8 -- press F1 for help
 >>> a = raw_input("Hä? ")
Hä? Tschüs
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in ?
    a = raw_input("Hä? ")
TypeError: object.readline() returned non-string
 >>>

Gregor