Michael B. Trausch wrote: > I am having a slight problem with UTF-8 output with Python. I have the > following program: > > x = 0 > > while x < 0x4000: > print u"This is Unicode code point %d (0x%x): %s" % (x, x, > unichr(x)) > x += 1 > > This program works perfectly when run directly: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ python test.py > This is Unicode code point 0 (0x0): > This is Unicode code point 1 (0x1): > This is Unicode code point 2 (0x2): > This is Unicode code point 3 (0x3): > This is Unicode code point 4 (0x4): > This is Unicode code point 5 (0x5): > This is Unicode code point 6 (0x6): > This is Unicode code point 7 (0x7): > This is Unicode code point 8 (0x8): > This is Unicode code point 9 (0x9): > This is Unicode code point 10 (0xa): > (... continued) > > However, when I attempt to redirect the output to a file: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ python test.py >f > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "test.py", line 6, in <module> > print u"This is Unicode code point %d (0x%x): %s" % (x, x, > unichr(x)) > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\x80' in > position 39: ordinal not in range(128) > > This is slightly confusing to me. The output goes all the way to the > end of the program when it is not redirected. Why is Python treating > the situation differently when the output is redirected? This failure > occurs for all redirection, by the way: >, >>, 1>2, pipes, and so forth. > > Any ideas?
In complement to Marc reply, you can open a file with a specific encoding (see codecs.open() function), and use print >> f,... to fill that file. A+ Laurent. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
