chr - what's this?

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2019-01-05, Stefan Ram <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>>    print( chr( 0x231E )) # Unicode Character 'BOTTOM LEFT CORNER' (U+231E)
>>  File "~~~\Python\Python37\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode
>
>   I also have:
>
> print(chr)
><built-in function chr>
>
>   . Don't see how the call gets to cp1252.py. I see:
>
>   bltinmodule.c.h
>
> #define BUILTIN_CHR_METHODDEF    \
>     {"chr", (PyCFunction)builtin_chr, METH_O, builtin_chr__doc__},

It isn't chr() that's throwing the exception, it's print().
chr(0x231e) is returning a unicode string, print() is trying
to display that string on stdout, and apparently on your
machine Python thinks stdout is encoded as cp1252.