On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 8:16 PM Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: > If sys.std* are console files, then in Python 3.6+, sys.std*.buffer.raw will > be _io._WindowsConsoleIO > io.TextIOWrapper uses locale.getpreferredencoding(False) as the default > encoding
Thank you for your replies - checking the sys.stdout.buffer.raw value is what finally helped me understand. Turns out, the Windows agent is redirecting the output of all python commands to a file, so sys.stdout is a file using the locale encoding of cp1252, instead of being a stream using encoding utf8. I wrote up a gist with my findings to hopefully help out some other poor soul in the future: https://gist.github.com/NodeJSmith/e7e37f2d3f162456869f015f842bcf15 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
