how to control file output encoding?

[Peter Otten]

MaTianyi wrote:

> the encoding of  file that is output by the file.write() function  is
> always None.
> and the encoding attribute of the File Object is readonly.
> 
> f = open('abc.txt','w')
> print f.encoding
>  >>> None
> 
> how can I change the file output encoding?

Have a look a the codecs module. codecs.open() will do the job.

http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/module-codecs.html

Peter