the official way of printing unicode strings

[Piotr Sobolewski]

Hello,

in Python (contrary to Perl, for instance) there is one way to do common
tasks. Could somebody explain me what is the official python way of
printing unicode strings?

I tried to do this such way:
s = u"Stanisław Lem"
print u.encode('utf-8')
This works, but is very cumbersome.

Then I tried to do this that way:
s = u"Stanisław Lem"
print u
This breaks when I redirect the output of my program to some file, like
that:
$ example.py > log

Then I tried to do this that way:
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter("utf-8")(sys.__stdout__)
s = u"Stanisław Lem"
print u
This works but is even more combersome.

So, my question is: what is the official, recommended Python way?