python in school notebooks/laptops

[Irmen de Jong]

On 30-5-2011 16:30, jmfauth wrote:
> On 30 mai, 13:09, hackingKK <hackin... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>
>> Even better, try convincing them to use Ubuntu instead of  a virus
>> called Where I Never Do Operations With Safety, or WINDOWS for short.
>> That way Python will come by default  and VB will be out of question
>> Happy hacking.
>> Krishnakant.
> 
> Do you mean one of these os's, where Python (2) is not
> working properly because the *defaultencoding* is set
> to utf-8?
> 
> jmf

Huh? On all of my machines, including windows and Ubuntu 11.04, sys.getdefaultencoding()
returns 'ascii'.

Irmen