@JonB this chunk of code (which is where it all goes wrong) already has that. Does it need to be hard coded? stream = sys.stdout
if stream.errors == 'strict':
# emulate backslashreplace error handler
encoding = stream.encoding
msg = msg.encode(encoding, "backslashreplace").decode(encoding)
stream.write('%s\n' % msg)
stream.flush()

@ccc2

>>> import sys
>>> print(sys.stdout)
<__main__.main.<locals>.StdoutCatcher object at 0x1093257b8>
>>> print(sys.__stdout__)
<_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='US-ASCII'>

I'm trying to use a C extension..

File "/var/containers/Bundle/Application/D1ECCA2A-92A4-498F-9924-55A09E1EE6CD/Pythonista3.app/Frameworks/Py3Kit.framework/pylib/distutils/log.py", line 32, in _log
if stream.errors == 'strict':
AttributeError: 'StdoutCatcher' object has no attribute 'errors'

Why is it doing this,