* Steven Bethard (Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:26:54 -0600) > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > I guess the culprit is this snippet from optparse.py: > > > > # used by test suite > > def _get_encoding(self, file): > > encoding = getattr(file, "encoding", None) > > if not encoding: > > encoding = sys.getdefaultencoding() > > return encoding > > > > def print_help(self, file=None): > > """print_help(file : file = stdout) > > > > Print an extended help message, listing all options and any > > help text provided with them, to 'file' (default stdout). > > """ > > if file is None: > > file = sys.stdout > > encoding = self._get_encoding(file) > > file.write(self.format_help().encode(encoding, "replace")) > > > > So this means: when the encoding of sys.stdout is US-ASCII, Optparse > > sets the encoding to of the help text to ASCII, too. But that's > > nonsense because the Encoding is declared in the Po (localisation) > > file. > > > > How can I set the encoding of sys.stdout to another encoding? Of > > course this would be a terrible hack if the encoding of the > > localisation changes or different translators use different > > encodings... > > If print_help() is what's wrong, you should probably hack print_help() > instead of sys.stdout. You could try something like:: > > def print_help(self, file=None): > """print_help(file : file = stdout) > > Print an extended help message, listing all options and any > help text provided with them, to 'file' (default stdout). > """ > if file is None: > file = sys.stdout > file.write(self.format_help()) > > optparse.OptionParser.print_help = print_help > > cmdlineparser = optparse.OptionParser(description=...) > ... > > That is, you could monkey-patch print_help() before you create an > OptionParser.
Yes, I could do that but I'd rather know first if my code is wrong or the optparse code. Thorsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
