[Pythonmac-SIG] Newbie: Unicode in Python 2.3?

[Nicholas Riley]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:51:33PM +0100, Philippe de Rochambeau wrote:
> One more question: why 'sys.stdout' in parentheses? 

Because the result of codecs.getwriter('utf8') is a class, and you're
instantiating the class with 'sys.stdout' as a parameter to __init__.

Also, it doesn't work very well otherwise :)

>>> codecs.getwriter('utf8') sys.stdout
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    codecs.getwriter('utf8') sys.stdout
                               ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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