#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
#
# Copyright (c) 2010 Doug Hellmann.  All rights reserved.
#
"""Demonstrate encoding errors.
"""
#end_pymotw_header

import codecs
import sys

error_handling = sys.argv[1]

text = u'pi: \u03c0'

try:
    # Save the data, encoded as ASCII, using the error
    # handling mode specified on the command line.
    with codecs.open('encode_error.txt', 'w',
                     encoding='ascii',
                     errors=error_handling) as f:
        f.write(text)

except UnicodeEncodeError, err:
    print 'ERROR:', err

else:
    # If there was no error writing to the file,
    # show what it contains.
    with open('encode_error.txt', 'rb') as f:
        print 'File contents:', repr(f.read())