On 3/7/2012 3:57 PM, Peter Kleiweg wrote:
In Python 3, there seem to be two ways to set sys.stdout to
utf-8 after the script has started:
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stdout.detach())
sys.stdout = io.TextIOWrapper(sys.stdout.detach(), encoding='utf-8')
I guess the second is better. At start-up, type(sys.stdout) is
<class '_io.TextIOWrapper'>, and it's also after using the
second method.
After using the first method, type(sys.stdout) is changed to
<class 'encodings.utf_8.StreamWriter'>.
Should I always use the second method?
I would. The io module is more recent an partly replaces codecs. The
latter remains for back compatibility and whatever it can do that io cannot.
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