Re: [pysqlite] test.test() error on osX using python2.5.4

Jan Neumann wrote:
> Hello Gerhard
> 
> Thanks for your swift reply!
> 
> Yes, in my sitecustomize.py there is the line
> 
> 	sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")
> 
> 
> But, if I change this to
> 
> 	sys.setdefaultencoding("ascii")
> 
> , the error is non the less raised. And in my site.py encoding is set  
> to "ascii" by default.

My recommendation is to not touch this at all. Though "ascii" should
probably be the same as just leaving the file empty.

> 
> If i use
> 
> 	import sys
> 	sys.setdefaultencoding("ascii")
> 
> in the python console, I get
> 
> 	Traceback (most recent call last):
> 	File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> 	AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'setdefaultencoding'

Yes, you can only do that in sitecustomize.py. The function removed
during Python initialization, so it isn't available later on.

> How could I change this? Or does pysqlite work with utf-8, too?

If will affect wether the test passes or not ;-)

Again, I'd recommend you don't touch this.

You might get slightly less decoding errors when you were sloppy in your
Python code. But, and this is a big one: your code won't run anywhere
else where this hack is not present.

That's why I strongly advise against changing default encodings.

-- Gerhard