idle6.0 german umlauts (ascii > 128 Exception)

[Walter.Zettel]

No, there is no contradiction. The first experiment was in idle the second
was in a dosshell.

I have tried it again (= restarted idle): it happend again. The trace says
it is in:

  File "c:\python20\lib\codeop.py", line 61, in compile_command
    code = compile(source, filename, symbol)
UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

codeop.py seems to be the problem.

What can I do? It is very important, cause I just started "mission python"
at my company (which is a very big public employee in germany) and one
argument was idle. (ok a small one, but it is difficult to get people on
other (better) ways!)

--
cu Walter

"Gerrit Muller" <gmuller at worldonline.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:8u72ci$2mp$1 at nereid.worldonline.nl...
> Your last experiment contradicts the first message. I remember having the
> same problem, when writing a program for my daughter to learn her French.
At
> first it didn't work, while a later try after restarting IDLE it simply
> worked... I have the impression that TkInter sometimes keeps some
> (nasty/faulty) state information screwing up all later attempts.
Restarting
> IDLE usually works.
>
> Gerrit
>
> Walter.Zettel heeft geschreven in bericht
> <8u71mh$4pg$02$1 at news.t-online.com>...
> >This is not acceptable for me.
> >
> >Python is able to handle umlauts:
> >
> >C:\home>bash
> >~ $python
> >Python 2.0 (#8, Oct 16 2000, 17:27:58) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
> >Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>>>
> >>>> a='Ä'
> >>>> print a
> >Ä
> >>>>
> >
> >The problem is not one of Python!
> >
> >Strings are as i see it connected bytes and it should not matter if the
> >value is greater than 127.
> >
> >Anyone out there, who can solve my problem?
> >
> <---snip--->
>
> >>and if I try to type 'astr = "Ä"' in interactive mode (Python Shell):
> >>
> >>>>> Exception in Tkinter callback
> >>Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>  File "c:\python20\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1287, in __call__
> >>    return apply(self.func, args)
> >>  File "C:\Python20\Tools\idle\PyShell.py", line 579, in enter_callback
> >>    self.runit()
> >>  File "C:\Python20\Tools\idle\PyShell.py", line 598, in runit
> >>    more = self.interp.runsource(line)
> >>  File "C:\Python20\Tools\idle\PyShell.py", line 183, in runsource
> >>    return InteractiveInterpreter.runsource(self, source, filename)
> >>  File "c:\python20\lib\code.py", line 61, in runsource
> >>    code = compile_command(source, filename, symbol)
> >>  File "c:\python20\lib\codeop.py", line 61, in compile_command
> >>    code = compile(source, filename, symbol)
> >>UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
> >>astr = 'Ä'
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>