AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'setdefaultencoding'? [duplicate]

Question

In my python env, help() return my python version is 2.7.

Then, I enter:

sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')

and it return this error: "AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'setdefaultencoding'"

But my python version is 2.7.

Anyone? Thanks a lot.

Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/28127513/… — Bando
– Bando, Commented Jul 16, 2020 at 18:52

Jan Stránský · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-16 17:34:08Z

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Have a look at documentation:

sys.setdefaultencoding: "... Once used by the site module, it is removed from the sys module’s namespace."
site module: "This module is automatically imported during initialization. The automatic import can be suppressed using the interpreter’s -S option."

answered Jul 16, 2020 at 17:34

Jan Stránský

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