Print encoding problems in console

[Andrew Berg]

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On 2011.07.15 07:02 PM, Pedro Abranches wrote:
> Now, if you're using your python script in some shell script you
> might have to store the output in some variable, like this:
> 
> $ var=`python -c 'import sys; print sys.stdout.encoding; print
> u"\xe9"'`
> 
> And what you get is:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in
> <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character
> u'\xe9' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> So, python is not being able to detect the encoding of the output in
> a situation like that, in which the python script is called not
> directly but around ``.
FWIW, it works for me with Python 3:
$ x=$(/c/Python32/python -c print\(\'\\xe9\'\))

$ echo $x
é

I don't know how to get it to work with more than one command to Python;
bash always thinks the next commands are for it:
$ x=$(/c/Python32/python -c import sys; print\(sys.output.encoding\);
print\(\'\\xe9\'\))
  File "<string>", line 1
    import
         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
bash: print(sys.output.encoding): command not found
bash: print('\xe9'): No such file or directory

This is using a very old MinGW bash, though.
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