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Subject: Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:46:34 +0100
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On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:14:17 +0100, Sérgio Monteiro Basto wrote:

> Exactly the opposite , if python don't know the encoding should not try 
> decode to ASCII.

What should it decode to, then?

You can't write characters to a stream, only bytes.

> I want python don't care about encoding terminal and send characters as they 
> are or for a file . 

You can't write characters to a stream, only bytes.