[issue4947] sys.stdout fails to use default encoding as advertised

STINNER Victor added the comment: I commited my patch (with a new test, iso-8859-1:replace) to 2.7: r84621. I will no backport to 2.6 because this branch now only accept security fixes. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python trac

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STINNER Victor added the comment: 3rd version of the patch: accept character buffer objects without reencoding them. Add also tests on character buffer objects. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18524/file_write-2.7-v3.patch ___ Python track

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STINNER Victor added the comment: > Your patch threatens to break compatibility Yes it does. But I think that nobody relies on this bug. If your terminal uses something that utf-8, you will see strange characters if you write something else than ascii characters. I supopse that anybody facing

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Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Your patch threatens to break compatibility. I think it would be better to simply change the "encoding" and "errors" attributes of standard streams. -- ___ Python tracker

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STINNER Victor added the comment: Oh, I forgot to write that my patch uses also the errors attribute. Update the patch to add tests on errors: file_write-2.7-v2.patch. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18522/file_write-2.7-v2.patch ___ Pytho

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STINNER Victor added the comment: Attached patch fixes this old and annoying issue. The issue only concerns sys.std* files, because Python only set the encoding and errors attributes for these files. -- keywords: +patch versions: +Python 2.7 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file1852

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Jan Kaliszewski added the comment: s / if File / in File s / -- works # <- is encoded with my_file.encoding / # <- is encoded with sys.stdout.encoding (sorry, too little sleep) -- ___ Python tracker ___

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Jan Kaliszewski added the comment: PS. The main problem is not a lack of feature but that inconsistency, and that's not documented if File type docs: print >>my_file, my_unicode # <- is encoded with my_file.encoding my_file.write(my_unicode) # <- is encoded with my_file.encoding # and on th

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Jan Kaliszewski added the comment: The matter had been discussed (and not once...), IMO without satisfactory conclusion -- see: * http://bugs.python.org/issue612627 (the feature added) * http://bugs.python.org/issue1214889 (another feature rejected) * http://bugs.python.org/issue1099364 (probl

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Gabriel Genellina added the comment: > It probably uses sys.getdefaultencoding() instead. That would be wrong too, according to the cited documentation. file.encoding is a read only attribute; it can be set in C code using PyFile_SetEncoding. Apart from its definition in fileobject.c, it is

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Antoine Pitrou added the comment: It probably uses sys.getdefaultencoding() instead. -- components: +Interpreter Core nosy: +pitrou priority: -> high type: -> behavior ___ Python tracker _

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New submission from Steven D'Aprano : Documentation for files states that when writing to a file, unicode strings are converted to byte strings using the encoding specified by file.encoding. http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#file.encoding sys.stdout is a file, but it does not behave