[Python-3000] Displaying strings containing unicode escapes

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:21:26PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Hmm, the io module along with sys.stdout/err may be a better way to 
> attack the problem then. Given:
> 
> import sys, io
> 
> class ParseUnicodeEscapes(io.TextIOWrapper):
>    def write(self, text):
>      super().write(text.encode('latin-1').decode('unicode_escape'))
> 
> args = (sys.stdout.buffer, sys.stdout.encoding, sys.stdout.errors,
>          None, sys.stdout.line_buffering)
> 
> sys.stdout = ParseUnicodeEscapes(*args)
> 
> args = (sys.stderr.buffer, sys.stderr.encoding, sys.stderr.errors,
>          None, sys.stderr.line_buffering)
> 
> sys.stderr = ParseUnicodeEscapes(*args)
> 
> You get:
> 
>  >>> "тест"
> 'тест'
>  >>> open("тест")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>    File "/home/ncoghlan/devel/py3k/Lib/io.py", line 212, in __new__
>      return open(*args, **kwargs)
>    File "/home/ncoghlan/devel/py3k/Lib/io.py", line 151, in open
>      closefd)
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'тест'

   Very well, then. Thank you! The code should be put in a cookbook or the
wiki, if not in the library.

Oleg.
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