Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:33:33 -0700, nn a écrit : > > > I know that unicode is the way to go in Python 3.1, but it is getting in > > my way right now in my Unix scripts. How do I write a chr(253) to a > > file? > > > > #nntst2.py > > import sys,codecs > > mychar=chr(253) > > print(sys.stdout.encoding) > > print(mychar) > > print() writes to the text (unicode) layer of sys.stdout. > If you want to access the binary (bytes) layer, you must use > sys.stdout.buffer. So: > > sys.stdout.buffer.write(chr(253).encode('latin1')) > > or: > > sys.stdout.buffer.write(bytes([253])) > > See http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/io.html#io.TextIOBase.buffer
Just what I needed! Now I full control of the output. Thanks Antoine. The new io stack is still a bit of a mystery to me. Thanks everybody else, and sorry for confusing the issue. Latin1 just happens to be very convenient to manipulate bytes and is what I thought of initially to handle my mix of textual and non-textual data. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list