Write Unicode str as utf-8

[Erik Max Francis]

kent sin wrote:

> Python support unicode, but some library don't. Write
> is one of them. 
> 
> When writing a csv file, The rows contains numbers and
> unicode str. It is a little pain to first convert all
> unicode str to utf-8 before writing the row.

Why?

	S = U.encode('utf-8')

> Are there anyway I can patch python such that It will
> convert the unicode string to utf-8 before the write?
> Where should I start?

codecs.open

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