On 2 Jun 2008, at 15:17, Alexey Blinov wrote:
Hmm... little test give me that: […] so... IMO print is better. Isn't it?
Actually both versions are incomplete.
To work with UTF-8 strings written to stdout in Python you need to:
1. Declare the source code to be UTF-8 (done with the encoding comment). 2. Declare the string itself to be a unicode string (done with the u- prefix). 3. Set the output stream to be UTF-8 (done by wrapping stdout in a codec-aware writer).
If step 3 is omitted, the encoding of stdout will be taken from the environment, so often it will still work.
The final script ends up being:
#!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys import codecs
a = u"æble" sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stdout); print a