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

A simple code snippet I used, which works for me on ubuntu: python2.7 and python3.6

from sys import version_info
if version_info.major == 2:  # for python2
    import codecs
    # for stdin
    UTF8Reader = codecs.getreader('utf8')
    sys.stdin = UTF8Reader(sys.stdin)
    # for stdout
    UTF8Writer = codecs.getwriter('utf8')
    sys.stdout = UTF8Writer(sys.stdout)
elif version_info.major == 3:  # for python3
    import codecs
    # for stdin
    UTF8Reader = codecs.getreader('utf8')
    sys.stdin = UTF8Reader(sys.stdin.buffer)
    # for stdout
    UTF8Writer = codecs.getwriter('utf8')
    sys.stdout = UTF8Writer(sys.stdout.buffer)