Unicode, command-line and idle

[Egon Frerich]

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What do you have in the IDLE options - General - Default source encoding?

Egon

Kent Johnson schrieb am 12.04.2006 12:40:

> a.serrano at vielca.com wrote:
>> Hello again, I've investigated a little bit and this is what I found:
>>
>> If I run IDLE and type
>>
>>>>> import sys
>>>>> sys.stdin.encoding
>> I get
>>
>> 'cp1252'
>>
>> But if I have a whatever.py file (it can even be a blank file), I edit
>> it with IDLE, I press F5 (Run Module) and then type:
>>
>>>>> import sys
>>>>> sys.stdin.encoding
>> I get
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in ?
>>     sys.stdin.encoding
>> AttributeError: PyShell instance has no attribute 'encoding'
>>
>> So when I have the following code in a file:
>>
>> # -*- coding: cp1252 -*-
>> import sys
>> text1 = u'españa'
>> text2 = unicode(raw_input(), sys.stdin.encoding)
>> if text1 == text2:
>>     print 'same'
>> else:
>>     print 'not same'
>>
>> and I press F5 (Run Module) I get:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "C:\test.py", line 4, in ?
>>     text2 = unicode(raw_input(), sys.stdin.encoding)
>> AttributeError: PyShell instance has no attribute 'encoding'
>>
>> This same code works if I just double-click it (run it in the windows
>> console) instead of using IDLE.
>>
>> I'm using Python 2.4.3 and IDLE 1.1.3.
> 
> FWIW all of the above give me 'cp1252', not AttributeError, and the type 
> of sys.stdin on my system is idlelib.rpc.RPCProxy, not PyShell.
> 
> Python 2.4.3 and IDLE 1.1.3 on Win2k
> 
> Kent

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