what is best method to set sys.stdout to utf-8?

Thu Mar 8 01:45:32 EST 2012

> I would. The io module is more recent an partly replaces codecs. The
> latter remains for back compatibility and whatever it can do that io cannot.

 I've a naive question : what is wrong with the following system ?
class MyStdOut(object):
 def __init__(self):
 self.old_stdout=sys.stdout
 def write(self,x):
 try:
 if isinstance(x,unicode):
 x=x.encode("utf8")
 except (UnicodeEncodeError,UnicodeDecodeError):
 sys.stderr.write("This should not happen !")
 raise
 self.old_stdout.write(x)
sys.stdout=MyStdOut()
... well ... a part of the fact that it is much longer ?
Laurent Claessens