Fix case involving non-ASCII chars on Windows (#17275)

alexlshon · web-flow · commit 2892ed4d0e91 · 2024-05-21T13:38:10.000-07:00
Fixes #16669 One can replicate this error in Windows using Python3.8 just by calling the mypy/pyinfo.py module using a slightly modified code of the `get_search_dirs` function where the python executable doesn't match the value of sys.executable. The only modification made to this code from `get_search_dirs` is the adding of a non-ascii-path to the env parameter
diff --git a/mypy/pyinfo.py b/mypy/pyinfo.py
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ def getsearchdirs() -> tuple[list[str], list[str]]:
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.stdout.reconfigure(encoding="utf-8")  # type: ignore [attr-defined]
     if sys.argv[-1] == "getsearchdirs":
         print(repr(getsearchdirs()))
     else:
