Python-сообщество

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
print 'hello'
print 'привет'

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
print u'hello'
print u'привет'

python file1.py > out1

python file2.py > out2

Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                              
  File "print_rus2.py", line 3, in <module>                                                                                                                     
    print u'&#9576;&#9488;&#9572;А&#9576;&#9557;&#9576;&#9619;&#9576;&#9569;&#9572;В'                                                                                                                                       
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-5: ordinal not in range(128)

class _ConsoleWrapper(object):    
    __slots__= "fileno", "softspace",
    def __init__(self, fileobject):
        self.fileno= fileobject.fileno()
        self.softspace = False

    def write(self, text):
        if isinstance(text, unicode):
            os.write(self.fileno, text.encode(sys.stdin.encoding))
        else:
            os.write(self.fileno, text)
sys.stdout = _ConsoleWrapper(sys.__stdout__)
sys.stderr = _ConsoleWrapper(sys.__stderr__)