Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Are there any places where PyBytes or PyString are written to stderr? 
> Or can you get away with just supporting PyUnicode?

I could have simple copied the write method from _fileio.c and letting
the argument parser do its job instead of fighting with the API for 20
minutes. :

> It's "dumb", not "dump".

I need an IDE with a context aware spell checker :]

> I wouldn't explicitly remove the old stderr printer -- it will be
> deleted automatically by the PyDict_SetItemString() call in
> PySys_SetObject().  That way you'll still have it when the
> PyFile_FromFd() call fails...

I didn't know that. I'll keep it in place.