On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 05:39:10AM -0700, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > Wow, thanks for looking all this up. Thanks also to other people who > replied. It's not really desirable that a IDE adds confusion to an > area that's already confusing to begin with.
Well, naturally it isn't desirable to add confusion, but I think that when dealing with IDEs it is unavoidable. The whole point of an IDE is that it is an *integrated* environment, which implies that the environment that Python runs in is not the same as unintegrated Python would be running in. > But given that chcp > returns cp850 on my windows system (commandline), wouldn't it be more > descriptive if sys.getfilesystemencoding() returned 'cp850'? I cannot comment on the gory details of Windows file system encodings, except to say the sooner Windows moves to UTF-8 everywhere like the rest of the civilized world, the better. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
