What is file.encoding convention?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:49:26 -0300, Naoki INADA <songofacandy at gmail.com>  
escribió:


>>> The encoding that this file uses. When Unicode strings are written to  
>>> a file,
>>>  they will be converted to byte strings using this encoding. In  
>>> addition,
>>> when the file is connected to a terminal, the attribute gives the  
>>> encoding
>>> that the terminal is likely to use
>
> I feel this doc means "file object with encoding attribute encodes
> unicode
> regardless it is tty or not" and sys.stdout/stderr defies convention.

The 'encoding' file attribute is very confusing and mostly unsupported (or  
there is a bug in the documentation, at least in Python 2.x). See  
http://bugs.python.org/issue4947

-- 
Gabriel Genellina