Unicode, command-line and idle

[Kent Johnson]

Egon Frerich wrote:
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> What do you have in the IDLE options - General - Default source encoding?

UTF-8

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> Egon
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> Kent Johnson schrieb am 12.04.2006 12:40:
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>> a.serrano at vielca.com wrote:
>>> Hello again, I've investigated a little bit and this is what I found:
>>>
>>> If I run IDLE and type
>>>
>>>>>> import sys
>>>>>> sys.stdin.encoding
>>> I get
>>>
>>> 'cp1252'
>>>
>>> But if I have a whatever.py file (it can even be a blank file), I edit
>>> it with IDLE, I press F5 (Run Module) and then type:
>>>
>>>>>> import sys
>>>>>> sys.stdin.encoding
>>> I get
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in ?
>>>     sys.stdin.encoding
>>> AttributeError: PyShell instance has no attribute 'encoding'
>>>
>>> So when I have the following code in a file:
>>>
>>> # -*- coding: cp1252 -*-
>>> import sys
>>> text1 = u'españa'
>>> text2 = unicode(raw_input(), sys.stdin.encoding)
>>> if text1 == text2:
>>>     print 'same'
>>> else:
>>>     print 'not same'
>>>
>>> and I press F5 (Run Module) I get:
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "C:\test.py", line 4, in ?
>>>     text2 = unicode(raw_input(), sys.stdin.encoding)
>>> AttributeError: PyShell instance has no attribute 'encoding'
>>>
>>> This same code works if I just double-click it (run it in the windows
>>> console) instead of using IDLE.
>>>
>>> I'm using Python 2.4.3 and IDLE 1.1.3.
>> FWIW all of the above give me 'cp1252', not AttributeError, and the type 
>> of sys.stdin on my system is idlelib.rpc.RPCProxy, not PyShell.
>>
>> Python 2.4.3 and IDLE 1.1.3 on Win2k
>>
>> Kent
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