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I'm not sure I understand: what is a "unicode stream".

All streams in Python are considered byte streams and
(currently) have no encoding attached. Changing that
would require a lot of work, some of which is under way.

Still, the best way to deal with this is to first encode Unicode
to a string using a known stream encoding and then sending
off the 8-bit data from the encoding process to the stream.