How to set default encoding in Python (setdefaultencoding() function does not exist)?
default, encoding, python
Solution
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.
Problem
Possible Duplicate: 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