old_contents: #!/usr/bin/env python
  #encoding:utf-8
  #author:dbr/Ben
  #project:tvnamer
  #repository:http://github.com/dbr/tvnamer
  #license:Creative Commons GNU GPL v2
  # http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/
  
  """Helpers to deal with strings, unicode objects and terminal output
  """
  
  import sys
  
  
  def unicodify(obj, encoding = "utf-8"):
      if isinstance(obj, basestring):
          if not isinstance(obj, unicode):
              object = unicode(obj, encoding)
      return obj
  
  
  def p(*args, **kw):
      """Rough implementation of the Python 3 print function,
      http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3105/
  
      def print(*args, sep=' ', end='\n', file=None)
  
      """
      kw.setdefault('encoding', 'utf-8')
      kw.setdefault('sep', ' ')
      kw.setdefault('end', '\n')
      kw.setdefault('file', sys.stdout)
  
      new_args = []
      for x in args:
          if not isinstance(x, basestring):
              new_args.append(repr(x))
          else:
              new_args.append(x)
  
      out = kw['sep'].join(x.encode(kw['encoding']) for x in new_args)
  
      kw['file'].write(out + kw['end'])
  
new_contents: #!/usr/bin/env python
  #encoding:utf-8
  #author:dbr/Ben
  #project:tvnamer
  #repository:http://github.com/dbr/tvnamer
  #license:Creative Commons GNU GPL v2
  # http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/
  
  """Helpers to deal with strings, unicode objects and terminal output
  """
  
  import sys
  
  
  def unicodify(obj, encoding = "utf-8"):
      if isinstance(obj, basestring):
          if not isinstance(obj, unicode):
              object = unicode(obj, encoding)
      return obj
  
  
  def p(*args, **kw):
      """Rough implementation of the Python 3 print function,
      http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3105/
  
      def print(*args, sep=' ', end='\n', file=None)
  
      """
      kw.setdefault('encoding', 'utf-8')
      kw.setdefault('sep', ' ')
      kw.setdefault('end', '\n')
      kw.setdefault('file', sys.stdout)
  
      new_args = []
      for x in args:
          if not isinstance(x, basestring):
              new_args.append(repr(x))
          else:
              if kw['encoding'] is not None:
                  new_args.append(x.encode(kw['encoding']))
              else:
                  new_args.append(x)
  
      out = kw['sep'].join(new_args)
  
      kw['file'].write(out + kw['end'])
  
subject: Support "encoding = None" argument