python3 - the hardest hello world ever ?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I meant setting the default encoding which is used by print (e.g.) when
> outputting the internal unicode string to a file.

Having such a thing would be conceptually wrong. What encoding should
be used depends on the file - different files may have different
encodings. When opening a file, you need to specify the encoding.

> As far as I understood, currently I am fixed to setting either
> the 'locale' or to switch settings for each output file (by settting
> the _encoding property.

That's not true. You can also specify the encoding when opening the file

> I wished I could override the locale settings within a Python script.

You can monkey-patch locale.getpreferredencoding, which is used when
determining what encoding to use when opening new files. I don't
recommend doing so, though.

Regards,
Martin