Message 142880 - Python tracker

Message142880

Author	r.david.murray
Recipients	docs@python, r.david.murray
Date	2011-08-24.13:18:12
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Message-id	<1314191894.1.0.666645625262.issue12832@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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A common problem encountered when using python3 is writing non-ascii to stdout. This will work fine if stdout is a terminal and the terminal encoding handles the characters, but will fail if stdout is later redirected to a pipe. The docs for sys.stdout and for print should contain or point to an explanation of why, and how to solve the problem (ie: how to set the encoding for sys.stdout/sys.stderr). Note that IMO it makes more sense for sys.stdout to default to the LOCALE encoding, but that should be a separate issue.

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A common problem encountered when using python3 is writing non-ascii to stdout.  This will work fine if stdout is a terminal and the terminal encoding handles the characters, but will fail if stdout is later redirected to a pipe.  The docs for sys.stdout and for print should contain or point to an explanation of why, and how to solve the problem (ie: how to set the encoding for sys.stdout/sys.stderr).

Note that IMO it makes more sense for sys.stdout to default to the LOCALE encoding, but that should be a separate issue.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-08-24 13:18:14	r.david.murray	set	recipients: + r.david.murray, docs@python
2011-08-24 13:18:14	r.david.murray	set	messageid: <1314191894.1.0.666645625262.issue12832@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-08-24 13:18:13	r.david.murray	link	issue12832 messages
2011-08-24 13:18:12	r.david.murray	create