Could someone please explain why python prints unicode characters in this instance
- by mike
From the Python 2.6 shell:
>>> import sys
>>> print sys.getdefaultencoding()
ascii
>>> print u'\xe9'
é
>>>
I expected to have either some gibberish or an Error after the print statement, since the "é" character isn't part of ASCII and I haven't specified an encoding. I guess I don't understand what ASCII being the default encoding means.