How do I direct output to a file when there are UTF-8 characters?

Question

I have a python script that grabs a bunch of recent tweets from the twitter API and dumps them to screen. It works well, but when I try to direct the output to a file something

Answer 1

Without modifying the script, you can just set the environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8 and Python will assume that encoding when redirecting to a file.

References:

https://docs.python.org/2.7/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONIOENCODING https://docs.python.org/3.3/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONIOENCODING