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Message: [QUOTE="Ron Garret, post: 3021163"] Is there a way to change the default string encoding used by the string.encode() method? My default environment is utf-8 but I need it to be latin-1 to avoid errors like this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 4: ordinal not in range(128) I can't change the code to pass an encoding argument to the decode method because it's someone else's code. Thanks, rg [/QUOTE]