[ python-Bugs-967986 ] file.encoding doesn't apply to file.write

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Bugs item #967986, was opened at 2004-06-07 09:00
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Category: Unicode
Group: Python 2.3
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Wont Fix
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Matthew Mueller (donut)
Assigned to: M.-A. Lemburg (lemburg)
Summary: file.encoding doesn't apply to file.write

Initial Comment:
In python2.3 printing unicode to an appropriate terminal
actually works.  But using sys.stdout.write doesn't.

Ex:
Python 2.3.4 (#2, May 29 2004, 03:31:27) 
[GCC 3.3.3 (Debian 20040417)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
more information.
>>> sys.stdout.encoding
'UTF-8'
>>> u=u'\u3053\u3093\u306b\u3061\u308f'
>>> print u
こんにちわ
>>> sys.stdout.write(u)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode
characters in position 0-4: ordinal not in range(128)


The file object docs say:
"encoding
    The encoding that this file uses. When Unicode
strings are written to
    a file, they will be converted to byte strings
using this encoding.
    ..."
Which indicates to me that it is supposed to work.

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>Comment By: M.-A. Lemburg (lemburg)
Date: 2007-01-13 20:26

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Not sure whether this is still the case. No patches were provided, so
closing the feature request.

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Comment By: M.-A. Lemburg (lemburg)
Date: 2004-07-23 12:23

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The encoding feature is currently only implemented for
printing. We could also add it to .write() and .writelines()
... patches are welcome.

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