sys.stdin.encoding

[Duncan Booth]

aine_canby at yahoo.com wrote:

> The following line in my code is failing because sys.stdin.encoding is
> Null.

I'll guess you mean None rather than Null.

> This has only started happening since I started working with
> Pydef in Eclipse SDK. Any ideas?
> 
> uni=unicode(word,sys.stdin.encoding)
> 
You could give it a fallback value:

uni = unicode(word, sys.stdin.encoding or sys.getdefaultencoding())

or even just:

uni = unicode(word, sys.stdin.encoding or 'ascii')

which should be the same in all reasonable universes (although I did get 
bitten recently when someone had changed the default encoding in a system).