Victor Stinner writes:
 > 2014-03-18 11:02 GMT+01:00 Atsuo Ishimoto <ishim...@gembook.org>:
 > > FYI: Guido was opposed to change error handler of stdin and
 > > stdout years ago.
 > >
 > > http://bugs.python.org/issue2630#msg65493
 > 
 > This issue proposes to use "backslashreplace" error handler for
 > stdout. This error handler is very different to "surrogateescape"
 > which is related to PEP 383 and used by all OS functions.

I would say, it's not different in the relevant aspect, which is
spewing presumably unreadable bytes that may cause other code reading
the output to choke.  I would think backslashreplace would generally
be preferred for these use cases.

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