Problem with sets and Unicode strings

[Robert Kern]

Dennis Benzinger wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:
>> Dennis Benzinger wrote:
>>> Ok, I understand.
>>> But isn't it a (minor) problem that using a set like this:
>>>
>>> # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
>>>
>>> FIELDS_SET = set(("Fächer", ))
>>>
>>> print u"Fächer" in FIELDS_SET
>>> print u"Fächer" == "Fächer"
>>>
>>> shadows the error of not setting sys.defaultencoding()?
>> You can't set the default encoding. If you could, then scripts that run 
>> on your machine wouldn't run on mine.
>> [...]
> 
> As Serge Orlov wrote in one of his posts you _can_ set the default 
> encoding (at least in site.py). See 
> <http://docs.python.org/lib/module-sys.html>

Okay, *don't* set the default encoding to anything other than 'ascii'. Doing so 
would be an error, not the other way around.

-- 
Robert Kern

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  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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