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.

Thanks,
Paul.
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