> is there any reason why "print" cannot pass unicode
> strings on to the underlying write method?
Mostly that currently print religiously calls PyObject_Str() on the
objects to print, which always converts to 8-bit strings.
> it would be really nice if this piece of code worked as
> expected:
>
> import sys
>
> class Wrapper:
> def __init__(self, file):
> self.file = file
> def write(self, data):
> self.file.write(data.encode("iso-8859-1", "replace"))
>
> sys.stdout = Wrapper(sys.stdout)
>
> print u"åäö"
>
> under 2.2a2 (and earlier versions), this gives me:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "\test.py", line 8, in ?
> print u"åäö"
> UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> (I'm willing to implement this, if the BDFL says so)
I think this would be a good idea, but please fix the various
outstanding SRE bugs first. :-)
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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