Python 3, is using sys.stdout.buffer.write() good style?

Question

After I learned about reading unicode files in Python 3.0 web script, now it\'s time for me to learn using print() with unicode.

I searched for writing unic

Answer 1

I don't think you're breaking any rule, but

sys.stdout = codecs.EncodedFile(sys.stdout, 'utf8')

looks like it might be handier / less clunky.

Edit: per comments, this isn't quite right -- @Miles gave the right variant (thanks!):

sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf8')(sys.stdout.buffer) 

Edit: if you can arrange for environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING to be set to utf8 when Apache starts your script, that would be even better, making sys.stdout be set to utf8 automatically; but if that's unfeasible or impractical the codecs solution stands.