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Subject: Re: python33, windows, UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position,  to print out the file contents to stdout,
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 12:14:26 -0400
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On 7/6/2014 10:52 AM, Rick Johnson wrote:

> So the direct reason for failure is due to the fact that the
> "print()" function ONLY handles strings, not list objects.

 >>> print(object())
<object object at 0x00000000020D2140>
 >>> print(['abc', 'cdf'])
['abc', 'cdf']

Since the original poster did not copy the traceback from the print 
error, it is unclear what the error was.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy