On 2008-04-19 03:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Another poster pointed me to >>> sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter("UTF-8")(sys.stdout) > and this works great. All I want now is some reassurance that this is > the most appropriate way for me to achieve what I want (e.g. least > likely to break with future versions of Python, most in keeping with > the design of Python, easiest for me to maintain, etc.).
While the above works nicely for Unicode objects you write to sys.stdout, you are going to have problems with non-ASCII 8-bit strings, e.g. binary data. Python will have to convert these to Unicode before applying the UTF-8 codec and uses the default encoding for this, which is ASCII. You could wrap sys.stdout using a codecs.EncodedFile() which provides transparent recoding, but then you have problems with Unicode objects, since the recoder assumes that it has to work with strings on input (to e.g. the .write() method). There's no ideal solution - it really depends a lot on what your application does and how it uses strings and Unicode. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Apr 19 2008) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ :::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,MacOSX for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list