#1555 (solution proposed) ascii codec used in debugger by default

[Anonymous]

When trying to debug Python code that has non-ascii unicode symbols (even in comments), an encoding problem pops up:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte ...

[Anonymous]

Sample Python file with UTF-8 comment that breaks the debugger

[Anonymous]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/eclipse/plugins/org.python.pydev_2.7.1.2012100913/pysrc/pydevd.py", line 1397, in <module>
debugger.run(setup['file'], None, None)
File "/eclipse/plugins/org.python.pydev_2.7.1.2012100913/pysrc/pydevd.py", line 1090, in run
pydev_imports.execfile(file, globals, locals) #execute the script
File "/eclipse/plugins/org.python.pydev_2.7.1.2012100913/pysrc/_pydev_execfile.py", line 34, in execfile
contents = stream.read()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.2/lib/python3.2/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 93: ordinal not in range(128)

[Anonymous]

In _pydev_execfile.py the final stream = open(file) uses ascii by default for some reason

The problem can be circumvented by adding
#encoding=utf-8
at the beginning of every file that uses utf-8 symbols inside

[Anonymous]

What worked for me (sorry, I'm still learning Python) is adding into _pydev_execfile.py(32)
import sys
before the default open(file), which seems to force the proper system default encoding

if encoding:
stream = open(file, encoding=encoding)
else:
import sys
stream = open(file)

[Anonymous]

##Sorry, stream = open(file, encoding=sys.getdefaultencoding()) of course