file.encoding doesn't apply to file.write?

[Matthew Mueller]

I noticed in python2.3 printing unicode to an appropriate terminal
actually works. But using sys.stdout.write doesn't.

Ex:
Python 2.3.4 (#2, May 29 2004, 03:31:27)
[GCC 3.3.3 (Debian 20040417)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

sys.stdout.encoding 'UTF-8' u=u'\u3053\u3093\u306b\u3061\u308f'
print u �ん��� sys.stdout.write(u)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-4: ordinal not in range(128)
The file object docs say:
"encoding
The encoding that this file uses. When Unicode strings are written to
a file, they will be converted to byte strings using this encoding.
..."
Which indicates to me that it is supposed to work.

Of course, I could use print >>fileobj, but that is ugly ;)
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[Martin v. Löwis]

Matthew Mueller wrote:

I noticed in python2.3 printing unicode to an appropriate terminal
actually works. But using sys.stdout.write doesn't.

Please report that as a bug. As a work-around, explicitly encode
with sys.stdout.encoding (or make a codecs.StreamReaderWriter,
passing codecs.lookup(sys.stdout.encoding)).

Regards,
Martin

[Matthew Mueller]

On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 07:55:00 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Matthew Mueller wrote:

I noticed in python2.3 printing unicode to an appropriate terminal
actually works. But using sys.stdout.write doesn't.

Please report that as a bug. As a work-around, explicitly encode
with sys.stdout.encoding (or make a codecs.StreamReaderWriter,
passing codecs.lookup(sys.stdout.encoding)).

I submitted a bug(https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?gro...70&atid=105470)

And I'm trying using StreamWriter, which I may actually want anyway so I
can set the error handling. But I've ran into a weird thing. Some codecs
don't like writing strings, only unicode. This is problematic because it
means I can't just use the StreamWriter as a drop in replacement for
stdout, etc:

Python 2.3.4 (#2, May 29 2004, 03:31:27)
[GCC 3.3.3 (Debian 20040417)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import codecs
sys.stdout=codecs.getwriter('UTF-8')(sys.__stdout__)
print 'hello' hello sys.stdout=codecs.getwriter('EUC-JP')(sys.__stdout__)
print 'hello'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: only unicode objects are encodable.


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