write Unicode to sys.out.write without access to sitecustomize.py

[Rob Knop]

I would like to tell the system that it's OK to write Unicode to sys.out
and sys.err. However, I'm doing this in a CGI script where I don't have
access to the system directories, and as such can't use
sys.setdefaultencoding in sitecustomize.py.

Is there a way to make this happen?

 

[exarkun]

I would like to tell the system that it's OK to write Unicode to
sys.out
and sys.err. However, I'm doing this in a CGI script where I don't
have
access to the system directories, and as such can't use
sys.setdefaultencoding in sitecustomize.py.

Is there a way to make this happen?

Sure, just replace the two files with versions that know how to encode
the unicode using the correct encoding:

import sys, codecs
info = codecs.lookup('utf-8') # for example
sys.stdout = info.streamwriter(sys.stdout)
sys.stderr = info.streamwriter(sys.stderr)

Jean-Paul