Kyle Kastner

On the earlier errors - does IPython automagically add unicode encoding (or import `__future__` things) to files it processes, including libs? That would explain why the error only occured in...

Yes, let me clarify - that would explain why the `UnicodeDecodeError` only occured in IPython interactive, until this change. I will try to reproduce in a script, and to reproduce...

Apparently, `from __future__ import unicode_literals` is a subtle, devious thing. See discussions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/809796/any-gotchas-using-unicode-literals-in-python-2-6 (top result for `from __future__ import unicode_literals` in Google) https://github.com/PythonCharmers/python-future/issues/22 In the master branch, no errors occur...