Note to self: about site customization

This post is probably of no interest to anyone but myself. I just installed Python on a new Windows XP (English), with André as my usual user name and SPE wouldn't work, due to some encoding error. The solution (which I only found in Python in a Nutshell - and only because I vaguely remembered what to look for [other Python books did not cover that topic :-( ] ) was to create a file name sitecustomize in Lib with the following:

import sys
sys.setdefaultencoding('iso-8859-1')

I have to remember this...