latin1 encoding as default?

[Gerhard Häring]

Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Klaus Meyer wrote:
> 
>>> is there a means to configure Python such that I
>>> can enter string constants in latin1-encoding?
>>
>>
>>
>> Do you mean this? http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html
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> 
> Many thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for,
> it works fine in a Python 2.3 scirpt
> but how can I tell idle .
> If I enter
> # _*_ coding: latin1 _*_
> 
> as the first line in 'idle'
> it doesn't have an effect.
> 
> Did I miss something?

IDLE has problems of its own. I don't know if there's any IDLE that 
understand encoding cookies, yet. But if there is, it's likely the 
IDLEfork project, which is to be integrated with 2.3 anyway, IIRC.

Sorry I can't say anything definite - I don't use IDLE myself.

-- Gerhard