Why is redirection not working with python scripts?

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Setting the correct encoding when piping stdout in python

The following runs in the python shell (2.7.3) as expected

for i in range(999):
    print i, unichr(i)

saving it in a file (asd.py), and running in the shell

$ ./asd.py

works also, but

$ ./asd.py > asd.txt

gives:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./asd.py", line 3, in <module>
    print i, unichr(i)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\x80' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Why is that? How to work around it?

Take a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/492483/setting-the-correct-encoding-when-piping-stdout-in-python — Silas Ray, Dec 12 '12 at 11:30

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 12 '12 at 11:26

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Try this code,

#!/usr/bin/python
for i in range(999):
   print i, unichr(i).encode('utf-8')

answered Dec 12 '12 at 11:26

Adem Öztaş

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mmm? what's the difference? – glglgl Dec 12 '12 at 11:38
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@glglgl difference is .encode('utf-8') – Adem Öztaş Dec 12 '12 at 11:42
it worked, but opening the file in gedit, it says: The file you opened has some invalid characters. If you continue editing this file you could corrupt this document., why is that ? – user1358 Dec 12 '12 at 11:43
"$ iconv -f utf-8 asd.txt" try this command – Adem Öztaş Dec 12 '12 at 11:45
@Ammar Sorry, I was blind. Didn't see it... – glglgl Dec 12 '12 at 11:46
same result, since my locale is "LANG=en_US.UTF-8", why was that needed ?, maybe a bug in gedit ? – user1358 Dec 12 '12 at 11:49
@user1358: My guess is it's because there are non-printable characters in the first 999, and a text editor reasonably thinks you don't actually want to edit them. – Wooble Dec 12 '12 at 12:26

Why is redirection not working with python scripts?

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