New submission from R. David Murray :
A common problem encountered when using python3 is writing non-ascii to stdout. This will work fine if stdout is a terminal and the terminal encoding handles the characters, but will fail if stdout is later redirected to a pipe. The docs for sys.stdout and for print should contain or point to an explanation of why, and how to solve the problem (ie: how to set the encoding for sys.stdout/sys.stderr).
Note that IMO it makes more sense for sys.stdout to default to the LOCALE encoding, but that should be a separate issue.
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 142880
nosy: docs@python, r.david.murray
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: The documentation for the print function should explain/point to how to control the sys.stdout encoding
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3
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Python tracker
http://bugs.python.org/issue12832
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