Changing default encoding of Python?

Question

I have many "can't encode" and "can't decipher" issues with Python when I execute my applications from the console. Yet, in the Eclipse PyDev IDE, the original (default) character encoding is set to UTF-8, and I'm fine. 

I looked around for setting the default encoding, and individuals say that Python erases the sys.setdefaultencoding capacity on startup, and we can not utilize it.

Is there any best solution?

Answer 1

Here is an easier strategy (hack) that gives you back the setdefaultencoding() work that was erased from sys:

import sys

# sys.setdefaultencoding() does not exist, here!

reload(sys)  # Reload does the trick!

sys.setdefaultencoding('UTF8')

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