file.encoding doesn't apply to file.write

[donut]

BPO	967986
Nosy	@malemburg

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closed_at = <Date 2007-01-13.19:26:46.000>
created_at = <Date 2004-06-07.07:00:09.000>
labels = ['expert-unicode']
title = "file.encoding doesn't apply to file.write"
updated_at = <Date 2007-01-13.19:26:46.000>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/donut'

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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue967986'
versions = ['Python 2.3']

[donut]

In python2.3 printing unicode to an appropriate terminal
actually works. But using sys.stdout.write doesn't.

Ex:
Python 2.3.4 (#2, May 29 2004, 03:31:27) 
[GCC 3.3.3 (Debian 20040417)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
more information.
>>> sys.stdout.encoding
'UTF-8'
>>> u=u'\u3053\u3093\u306b\u3061\u308f'
>>> print u
S“ka�
>>> sys.stdout.write(u)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode
characters in position 0-4: ordinal not in range(128)

The file object docs say:
"encoding
The encoding that this file uses. When Unicode
strings are written to
a file, they will be converted to byte strings
using this encoding.
..."
Which indicates to me that it is supposed to work.

[malemburg]

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The encoding feature is currently only implemented for
printing. We could also add it to .write() and .writelines()
... patches are welcome.

[malemburg]

Not sure whether this is still the case. No patches were provided, so closing the feature request.