On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:19 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to write a string to an already-open file (sys.stdout, typically). > However, I *don't* want encoding errors, and the string could be arbitrary > Unicode (in theory). The best way I've found is > > data = data.encode(file.encoding, errors='replace').decode(file.encoding) > file.write(data) > > (I'd probably use backslashreplace rather than replace, but that's a minor > point). > > Is that the best way? The multiple re-encoding dance seems a bit clumsy, but > it was the best I could think of.
The simplest solution would be to call ascii() on the string, which will give you an ASCII-only representation (using backslash escapes). If your goal is to write Unicode text to a log file in some safe way, this is what I would be doing. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
