Setting the correct encoding when piping stdout in Python

Question

When piping the output of a Python program, the Python interpreter gets confused about encoding and sets it to None. This means a program like this:

# -*- co         


        

Answer 1

export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8

do the job, but can't set it on python itself ...

what we can do is verify if isn't setting and tell the user to set it before call script with :

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if (sys.stdout.encoding is None):
        print >> sys.stderr, "please set python env PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8, example: export PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8, when write to stdout."
        exit(1)

Update to reply to the comment: the problem just exist when piping to stdout . I tested in Fedora 25 Python 2.7.13

python --version
Python 2.7.13

cat b.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys

print sys.stdout.encoding

running ./b.py

UTF-8

running ./b.py | less

None