> Unfortunately, I can't see what "encoding" I should use if I want
> to read & write Unicode string objects to it. ;( (Marc-Andre,
> please tell me I've missed something!)
It depends on the output you want to have. One option would be
s=codecs.lookup('unicode-escape')[3](sys.stdout)
Then, s.write(u'\251') prints a string in Python quoting notation.
Unfortunately,
print >>s,u'\251'
won't work, since print *first* tries to convert the argument to a
string, and then prints the string onto the stream.
> On the other hand, it's annoying that I can't create a file-object
> that takes Unicode strings from "print", and doesn't seem intuitive.
Since you are asking for a hack :-) How about having an additional
letter of 'u' in the "mode" attribute of a file object?
Then, print would be
def print(stream,string):
if type(string) == UnicodeType:
if 'u' in stream.mode:
stream.write(string)
return
stream.write(str(string))
The Stream readers and writers would then need to have a mode or 'ru'
or 'wu', respectively.
Any other protocol to signal unicode-awareness in a stream might do as
well.
Regards,
Martin
P.S. Is there some function to retrieve the UCN names from ucnhash.c?
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