[Pythonmac-SIG] How to print unicode to OS-X Terminal.app

Robin Dunn robin at alldunn.com
Thu Feb 14 22:44:26 CET 2008


Christopher Barker wrote:
> Kent Johnson wrote:
>> You can, with sys.setdefaultencoding(). See here for discussion of how:
>> http://blog.ianbicking.org/illusive-setdefaultencoding.html
> 
>  > and here for arguments that this is a bad idea (mostly because it makes
>  > your code non-portable):
>  > http://faassen.n--tree.net/blog/view/weblog/2005/08/02/0
> 
> Thanks for the links.
> 
> I'm nervous about messing with sys.setdefaultencoding() too - partly 
> because I have no idea what all the implications are.
> 
> It sure would be nice to be able to just change it for "print" though. 
> Even if it's going to us ascii, it really should use "replace" or 
> "ignore" -- it's much better to get something, rather than an error. 
> It's just a handy utility function after all.
> 
> Maybe I can re-map print to something like:
> 
> TerminalEncoding = "utf-8"
> def uni_print(object):
>      sys.stdout.write(unicode(object).encode(TerminalEncoding))
>      sys.stdout.write("\n")
> 
> 
> but print is a statement, rather than a function, so I don't know how to 
> do that. I may start using a utility function like that for my code, though.

Just replace sys.stdout with an object with a write() method that does 
what you want.  If you need to use the original stdout for the actual 
output then you can get to is from sys.__stdout__.


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