IDLE : Saving script problems

[v.wehren]

Ohh, and what's really ugly is that in some cases the error message does not
come to the foreground and you end up with an empty (!) file at a certain
point. At least, that's how I remember it...

"v.wehren" <v.wehren at home.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Are you using any french characters (cedilla, accents) and so on in your
> comments? Be aware that your build propably defaults to ASCII as encoding
> for your code!
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> The trick used to be adapting your "site.py" in the pythin22\lib
directory.
> Find "encoding" (ca. line 288). Try changing "ASCII" to "CP1252".
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> It's possible that this method is depracated, but it worked fine for me...
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> Regards
> vinweh
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> "ray" <raynaldo.delporte at noos.fr> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> > Hi !
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> > I'm a beginner in Python. Using XP.
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> > When starting the Python Shell, creating a new window with CTRL-N, and
> > writing some script, i CANNOT save it !!!
> > when saving, the Python Shell main window displays an error message in
RED
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> > >>> Exception in Tkinter callback
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "C:\Python22\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1292, in __call__
> >     return apply(self.func, args)
> >   File "C:\PYTHON22\Tools\idle\IOBinding.py", line 126, in save
> >     self.save_as(event)
> >   File "C:\PYTHON22\Tools\idle\IOBinding.py", line 136, in save_as
> >     if self.writefile(filename):
> >   File "C:\PYTHON22\Tools\idle\IOBinding.py", line 154, in writefile
> >     f.write(chars)
> > UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
> >
> > How can i fix this problem ???
> >
> > Thanx.
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