"Peter Otten" <__pete...@web.de> wrote in message news:lql3am$2q7$1...@ger.gmane.org... > Frank Millman wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> This is not important, but I would appreciate it if someone could explain >> the following, run from cmd.exe on Windows Server 2003 - >> >> C:\>python >> Python 3.4.1 (v3.4.1:c0e311e010fc, May 18 2014, 10:38:22) [MSC v.1600 32 >> bit (In >> tel)] on win32 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>>> x = '\u2119' >>>>> x # this uses stderr >> '\u2119' > > No, both print to stdout, but just > >>>> x > > is passed to the display hook of the interactive interpreter. This applies > repr() and then tries to print the result. If this fails it makes another > effort, roughly (the actual code is written in C) > > sys.stdout.buffer.write(repr(x).encode( > sys.stdout.encoding, "backslashreplace")) > >
Thanks, Peter. Very interesting. Out of interest, does the same thing happen when writing to sys.stderr? Frank -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
