[Python-ideas] changing sys.stdout encoding

[Rurpy]

On 06/05/2012 11:49 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen-Sn97VrDLz2sdnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> For both of these cases a command-line option to initialize the
>> encoding would be convenient.

A Python interpreter command line option?
That would not particularly help my use case much.

> Before adding yet-another-command-line-option, the cases where the
> existing environment variable support can't be used from the command
> line, but a new option could be, should be clearly enumerated.
> 
> $ python3
> Python 3.2.1 (default, Jul 11 2011, 18:54:42)
> [GCC 4.6.1 20110627 (Red Hat 4.6.1-1)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import sys
>>>> sys.stdout.encoding
> 'UTF-8'
>>>>
> $ PYTHONIOENCODING=latin-1 python3
> Python 3.2.1 (default, Jul 11 2011, 18:54:42)
> [GCC 4.6.1 20110627 (Red Hat 4.6.1-1)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import sys
>>>> sys.stdout.encoding
> 'latin-1'

I don't think that works on Windows.