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Changing default encoding of python?
I am reading dive in python and it mentions setting python's default encoding scheme in the XML parsing chapter.
The setdefaultencoding is used in python-installed-dir/site-packages/pyanaconda/sitecustomize.py
import sys
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')
But when I run the script, it raises:
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'setdefaultencoding'
How to set the default encoding,anyway?
I am using python 2.7
Solution: find the site.py in the python installation.
Edit the setencoding function
def setencoding():
encoding = "ascii"
if 0:
import locale
loc = locale.getdefaultlocale()
if loc[1]:
encoding = loc[1]
if 0: #changes comes here, change 0 to 1
encoding = "undefined" #the encoding you want
if encoding != "ascii":
sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding)
I am using python 2.7
Under Eclipse, run dialog settings ("run configurations", if I remember correctly); you can choose the default encoding on the common tab. Change it to US-ASCII if you want to have these errors 'early' (in other words: in your PyDev environment).
Python's sys
module has had a setdefaultencoding
function since Python 2.0. However,
This function is only intended to be used by the site module implementation and, where needed, by sitecustomize. Once used by the site module, it is removed from the sys module’s namespace.
The docs back to at least Python 2.1 indicate this happens, so it was never appropriate for PyAnaconda to use this method, and I'm not sure why it ever worked.
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