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

There is an optional environment variable "PYTHONIOENCODING" which may be set to a desired default encoding. It would be one way of grabbing the user-desired encoding in a way consistent with all of Python. It is buried in the Python manual here.