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Asked: 2026-06-19T00:26:13+00:00

I am calling some sort of API which returns an object with three properties:

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I am calling some sort of API which returns an object with three properties:

obj.name
obj.id
obj.text

all of these could come in different encoding.

In order to output it correctly to my terminal, I am now doing 

print obj.name.encode('UTF-8')
print obj.id.encode('UTF-8')
print obj.text.encode('UTF-8')

Is there a way I can simply do one time to set my default encoding to UTF-8?

I read some other post which suggested calling the sys.setdefaultencoding(‘UTF-8’), which is not available anymore in python 2.7.x

Please advise.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Normally Python detects the output encoding from the terminal settings; you can see what Python detected by running:

    import sys
sys.stdout.encoding

    You really want to configure your terminal to specify the correct encoding if that doesn’t work for you; set the LC_CTYPE environment variable on POSIX systems for example.

    You can also force Python to use an encoding by setting the PYTHONIOENCODING environment variable:

    $ PYTHONIOENCODING=latin-1 python -c 'import sys; print sys.stdout.encoding'
latin-1
$  PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8 python -c 'import sys; print sys.stdout.encoding'
utf8
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