Writing unicode strings via sys.stdout in Python

Question

Assume for a moment that one cannot use print (and thus enjoy the benefit of automatic encoding detection). So that leaves us with sys.stdout. Howe

Answer 1

export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8

will do the job, but can't set it on python itself ...

what we can do is verify if isn't setting and tell the user to set it before call script with :

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if (sys.stdout.encoding is None):
        print >> sys.stderr, "please set python env PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8, example: export PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8, when write to stdout."
        exit(1)