Re: Why does the "".join(r) do this?

From: Ivan Voras (ivoras_at___geri.cc.fer.hr)
Date: 05/20/04 

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 20:36:37 +0200

Peter Otten wrote:

> Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
>
>>Try
>>
>> u"".join(r)
>>
>>instead. I think the join operation is trying to convert the Unicode bits
>>in your list of strings to strings by encoding using the default codec,
>>which appears to be ASCII.
>
>
> This is bound to fail when the first non-ascii str occurs:

Is there a way to change the default codec in a part of a program?
(Meaning that different parts of program deal with strings they know are
in a specific different code pages?) 

-- 
C isn't that hard: void (*(*f[])())() defines f as an array of
unspecified size, of pointers to functions that return pointers to
functions that return void.

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