On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > By default Python 3 uses UTF-8 when reading files. As the error below > shows, your file actually isn't UTF-8.
Modules default to UTF-8, but io.TextIOWrapper defaults to the locale preferred encoding. To handle terminals, it first tries os.device_encoding (i.e. _Py_device_encoding). Otherwise for files it defaults to locale.getpreferredencoding(False). On Windows, getpreferredencoding uses _locale._getdefaultlocale, which calls Windows GetACP to get the ANSI codepage (e.g. 1252). For POSIX, if CODESET is defined, getpreferredencoding uses _locale.nl_langinfo. Otherwise it falls back to using getdefaultlocale, and ultimately to 'ascii'. getdefaultlocale parses the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG, and LANGUAGE. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
