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Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 14:41:47 +1000
Subject: Re: unicode by default
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On Thu, May 12, 2011 2:14 pm, Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
>
> If the file you're writing to doesn't specify an encoding, Python will
> default to locale.getdefaultencoding(),

No such attribute. Perhaps you mean locale.getpreferredencoding()