[Python-ideas] Adding an 'errors' argument to print

[Ryan Gonzalez]

Recently, I was working on a Windows GUI application that ends up running
ffmpeg, and I wanted to see the command that was being run. However, the
file name had a Unicode character in it (it's a Sawano song), and when I
tried to print it to the console, it crashed during the encode/decode. (The
encoding used in cmd doesn't support Unicode characters.)

The workaround was to do:


print(mystring.encode(sys.stdout.encoding,
errors='replace).decode(sys.stdout.encoding))


Not fun, especially since this was *just* a debug print.

The proposal: why not add an 'errors' argument to print? That way, I
could've just done:


print(mystring, errors='replace')


without having to worry about it crashing.

--
Ryan (ライアン)
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