March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
39h 30m
English
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Name
getdefaultencoding
Synopsis
getdefaultencoding( )
Returns the name of the default codec used to encode and decode
Unicode and string objects (normally 'ascii').
Unicode, codecs, encoding, and decoding are covered in Chapter 9.