self.myOut = stdOutCustom(self.debug_log)
self.orig_out = sys.stdout
self.orig_err = sys.stderr

class stdOutCustom(object):

    errors = 'strict'
    encoding = 'utf-8'

    def __init__(self, fp):
        self.log = fp

    def write(self, d):
        self.log.write(d.encode('utf-8'))

    def write(self, d):

        if isinstance(d, str):
            self.log.write(d.encode('utf-8'))
        else:
            self.log.write(d)

    def flush(self):
        self.stdout.flush()

    def __del__(self):
        self.log.close()