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

This is what I am doing in my application:

sys.stdout.write(s.encode('utf-8'))

This is the exact opposite fix for reading UTF-8 names from argv:

for file in sys.argv[1:]:
    file = file.decode('utf-8')

This is very ugly (IMHO) as it force you to work with UTF-8.. which is the norm on Linux/Mac, but not on windows... Works for me anyway :)