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From: Peter Kleiweg on 25 Jun 2010 11:13

How do I set the string encoding for os.system to anything other then UTF-8?


(peter) ~ echo $LANG
nl_NL(a)euro
(peter) ~ python3
Python 3.1.1 (r311:74480, Oct 2 2009, 11:50:52)
>>> '\N{EURO SIGN}'
'�'
>>> import os
>>> os.system('echo \N{EURO SIGN}')
�?�
0
>>>


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Peter Kleiweg
From: Martin v. Loewis on 27 Jun 2010 16:00
Am 25.06.2010 17:13, schrieb Peter Kleiweg:
> How do I set the string encoding for os.system to anything other then UTF-8?

You shouldn't have to set it, as it should use your locale's encoding.
In 3.1.2, it will.

For the moment, you can encode the string explicitly, and pass a byte
string.

Regards,
Martin
From: Peter Kleiweg on 27 Jun 2010 16:17
Martin v. Loewis schreef op de 27e dag van de zomermaand van het jaar 2010:

> Am 25.06.2010 17:13, schrieb Peter Kleiweg:
> > How do I set the string encoding for os.system to anything other then UTF-8?
>
> You shouldn't have to set it, as it should use your locale's encoding.
> In 3.1.2, it will.
>
> For the moment, you can encode the string explicitly, and pass a byte
> string.

That doesn't work

Python 3.1.1 (r311:74480, Oct 2 2009, 11:50:52)
>>> import os
>>> os.system('echo \N{EURO SIGN}'.encode('iso-8859-15'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: must be string, not bytes


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From: Martin v. Loewis on 27 Jun 2010 17:05
>> For the moment, you can encode the string explicitly, and pass a byte
>> string.
>
> That doesn't work

I only have 3.1.2 to test at the moment. I suggest trying to use the
subprocess module instead.

Regards,
Martin
From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro on 29 Jun 2010 03:31
In message <alpine.DEB.1.10.1006251708470.3765(a)localhost>, Peter Kleiweg
wrote:

> How do I set the string encoding for os.system to anything other then
> UTF-8?

Works for me (on Debian Unstable):

ldo(a)theon:~> echo $LC_ALL
en_NZ.utf8
ldo(a)theon:~> python3.1
Python 3.1.2 (r312:79147, May 8 2010, 13:27:06)
[GCC 4.4.4] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> os.system('echo \N{EURO SIGN}')
€
0
>>> '\N{EURO SIGN}'
'€'
>>>

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