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  1. mjpost revised this gist Sep 10, 2015. 1 changed file with 3 additions and 0 deletions.
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    #!/usr/bin/env python
    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

    # Python *sucks* at UTF-8 (don't tell me "It's fixed in Python 3"; I don't care, plus no one uses Python 3)
    # If you put this at the top of every Python script, however, it get rids of most of the headaches dealing with STDIN
    # and STDOUT (basically, akin to "perl -C31"). I don't know if it's all necessary; I just know that if I put it at
  2. mjpost created this gist Jul 2, 2015.
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    # Python *sucks* at UTF-8 (don't tell me "It's fixed in Python 3"; I don't care, plus no one uses Python 3)
    # If you put this at the top of every Python script, however, it get rids of most of the headaches dealing with STDIN
    # and STDOUT (basically, akin to "perl -C31"). I don't know if it's all necessary; I just know that if I put it at
    # the top of my scripts, most of the problems go away, and I can stop thinking about it.

    import sys
    import codecs

    reload(sys)
    sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')
    sys.stdin = codecs.getreader('utf-8')(sys.stdin)
    sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stdout)
    sys.stdout.encoding = 'utf-8'