A thread on the Python Mac sig got me to wondering if there is any magic in
Python 3's print function for printing Unicode. Nope, no magic:
>>> print("\xef")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python3.0/io.py", line 1246, in write
b = encoder.encode(s)
File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python3.0/encodings/ascii.py", line 22, in
encode
return codecs.ascii_encode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xef' in position
0: ordinal not in range(128)
Which kind of confuses me because on my system my default encoding is utf-8:
>>> sys.getdefaultencoding()
'utf-8'
Well, then how about an encoding arg? Nope again:
>>> print("\xef", encoding="utf-8")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'encoding' is an invalid keyword argument for this function
help(print) doesn't offer any suggestions either. Any chance that maybe an
encoding keyword arg could make it into an upcoming 3.0aN release?
(Or... Am I missing a simple solution to the problem?) It seems that
printing Unicode ought to be easier in Python 3 than it is.
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