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| -rw-r--r-- | markdown/__init__.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/markdown/__init__.py b/markdown/__init__.py index 58993dd..d90d6c0 100644 --- a/markdown/__init__.py +++ b/markdown/__init__.py @@ -379,8 +379,15 @@ class Markdown: output_file.write(html) # Don't close here. User may want to write more. else: - stdout = codecs.getwriter(encoding)(sys.stdout, errors="xmlcharrefreplace") - stdout.write(html) + if sys.stdout.encoding: + # If we are in Python 3 or if we are not piping output: + sys.stdout.write(html) + else: + # In python 2.x if you pipe output on command line, + # sys.stdout.encoding is None. So lets set it: + writer = codecs.getwriter(encoding) + stdout = writer(sys.stdout, errors="xmlcharrefreplace") + stdout.write(html) return self |