How to print a unicode string?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-04-19 03:09, damonwischik at gmail.com wrote:
> Another poster pointed me to
>>> sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter("UTF-8")(sys.stdout)
> and this works great. All I want now is some reassurance that this is
> the most appropriate way for me to achieve what I want (e.g. least
> likely to break with future versions of Python, most in keeping with
> the design of Python, easiest for me to maintain, etc.).

While the above works nicely for Unicode objects you write
to sys.stdout, you are going to have problems with non-ASCII
8-bit strings, e.g. binary data.

Python will have to convert these to Unicode before applying
the UTF-8 codec and uses the default encoding for this, which
is ASCII.

You could wrap sys.stdout using a codecs.EncodedFile() which provides
transparent recoding, but then you have problems with Unicode objects,
since the recoder assumes that it has to work with strings on input
(to e.g. the .write() method).

There's no ideal solution - it really depends a lot on what
your application does and how it uses strings and Unicode.

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