py2exe problem

[Harald Massa]

Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote in
news:zmywh4yx.fsf at python.net: 

>>
>> A software development system which REALLY solves the encodings
>> problem WITHOUT creating a swarm of new ones could would challange
>> even my devotedness to Python :))))
> 
> AFAIK, McMillan Installer solves this by including all the encodings
> stuff by default, and it has a --ascii flag to override this
> behaviour. Would that be a solution?

Thomas,

I solved the headaches with py2exe and encodings, again and again ...
even documented some of these steps within the wiki. 

But encodings still give me new pain any day: storing filenames to
databases, displaying filenames in windows-controls, sending
database-extracts to excel or word ... time on time encodings and/or
unicode errors pop up and cause me misery. 

So my cryout is for a solution for all encoding-problems like the python
for-loop or list-comprehensions: elegant, simple, robust, flexible. Easy
to use, easy to implement. 

Harald