[Tutor] [tutor] string encode

Danny Yoo dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu
Tue Sep 19 15:36:31 CEST 2006



On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, emilia12 at mail.bg wrote:

> so, how register(?) all imported modules to convert all unicodes to 
> str() with a coder, for eg. encode('cp1251')

Hi Emilia,

Unfortunately, this isn't so clean: changing the systemwide 
default encoding may cause things to break.  See:

     http://faassen.n--tree.net/blog/view/weblog/2005/08/02/0

for some discussion on the pitfalls.


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