the stupid encoding problem to stdout

[Mark Tolonen]

"Sérgio Monteiro Basto" <sergiomb at sapo.pt> wrote in message 
news:4df137a7$0$30580$a729d347 at news.telepac.pt...

> How I change sys.stdout.encoding always to UTF-8 ? at least have a
> consistent sys.stdout.encoding

There is an environment variable that can force Python I/O to be a specfic 
encoding:

    PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8

-Mark