On 2008-05-20 12:16, Thomas Wouters wrote:
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:41 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2008-05-20 10:22, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
I'd like to propose a new environment variable PYTHONSTDOUTENCODING.
This is meant to solve various problems that people had with Python
not detecting their terminal encoding correctly; it would override
any detection that Python would use for determining the encoding of
stdout (and stdin - but that's less relevant in 2.x).
How is this relevant for 2.x ?
In 2.x, stdin and stdout are just files without any io wrappers
around them.
Writing Unicode to stdout will still use the default encoding
ASCII to convert it to an 8-bit string. All other 8-bit strings
will be passed to stdout as-is.
You're forgetting about print; in Python 2.x, when stdout is connected to a
terminal, the locale settings (typically the LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE
environment variables) are taken into account when 'print' writes to
sys.stdout.
Thanks for reminding me. I had forgotten about that special case.
So "sys.stdout.write(unicode)" will always use the default encoding,
whereas "print unicode" uses the sys.stdout.encoding, correct ?
Hmm, wouldn't it be better to always use .encoding and also make
it adjustable from Python (it is adjustable from C) ?!
PYTHONSTDOUTENCODING could then provide the default to
sys.stdout.encoding.
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