How to change the stdin and stdout encoding on Python 2

Question

I\'m using Windows and Linux machines for the same project. The default encoding for stdin on Windows is cp1252, and on Linux it is utf-8.

I would like to change eve

Answer 1

This is an old question, but just for reference.

To read UTF-8 from stdin, use:

UTF8Reader = codecs.getreader('utf8')
sys.stdin = UTF8Reader(sys.stdin)

# Then, e.g.:
for _ in sys.stdin:
    print _.strip()

To write UTF-8 to stdout, use:

UTF8Writer = codecs.getwriter('utf8')
sys.stdout = UTF8Writer(sys.stdout)

# Then, e.g.:
print 'Anything'