Spyder, IDLE, command line and unicode -- cannot display pi character

[Alchemist45]

I have run across a puzzle to me.  I am not experience in using unicode in python;  I am a self-taught programmer using python, Lazarus, and R primarily.  I have a small program that has a pi character in a dictionary.  I want to print out the character to the console.  My program converts the str to unicode and prints.  I get the expected pi character (utf-8) if I use the IDLE interface or the command line to run the .py program.  If I try to use Spyder to run it I get an decode error about no character available.

Any ideas?

[Adrian Klaver]

What is the exact error text?

What is the string you are converting?

>
>

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[stone...@gmail.com]

if you try this
````
print("Π")
````

and it answers something like  this :
````
File "C:....\python-3.3.2\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode
 return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u03a0' in position 0: character maps to <undefined>
````

This is because you are in Windows, and the Spyder Console Character Set  is not in utf-8 (but cp1252/latin-1, for example)

Unfortunately, I don't know how to change that.

[Carlos Córdoba]

Thanks for reporting. This seems an error we need to fix before 2.3 is released.

El 26/10/13 16:09, stone...@gmail.com escribió:

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