python3 - the hardest hello world ever ?

[Helmut Jarausch]

Paul Boddie wrote:
> On 16 Okt, 11:28, Helmut Jarausch <jarau... at igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
> wrote:
>> I meant setting the default encoding which is used by print (e.g.) when
>> outputting the internal unicode string to a file.
>> As far as I understood, currently I am fixed to setting either
>> the 'locale' or to switch settings for each output file (by settting
>> the _encoding property.
>> I wished I could override the locale settings within a Python script.
> 
> You could use the locale module. ;-)
> 
> But seriously, I'd like to know whether the program I posted works
> with Python 2.x because there could be differences between 2.x and
> 3.x, and we'd obviously like to solve your problems regardless of
> which Python version you're using.
> 

Yes, of course.
I have always worked with latin-1 strings with an US locale under
python-2.x with x < 6 (I haven't tried 2.6, though). I hope to switch to 3.0
as soon as possible.


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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany