IPython Notebook: What is the default encoding?

Question

I have created a package using the encoding utf-8.

When calling a function, it returns a DataFrame, with a column coded in utf-8.

When using IPytho

Answer 1

I had the same problem recently, and indeed setting the default encoding to UTF-8 did the trick:

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")

Running sys.getdefaultencoding() yielded 'ascii' on my environment (Python 2.7.3), so I guess that's the default.

Also see this related question and Ian Bicking's blog post on the subject.