Alternative to print

[JRMeyer]

>>> nobuf
[December 22, 2017, 6:33pm]

print() in python2.7 has [some glitches with
#frustration-3-inconsistent-treatment-of-output),
and you might get UnicodeEncodeError when you have unicode characters in
alphabet.txt and redirect the output from
DeepSpeech.py to a file:

python -u DeepSpeech.py slash
...
> log/somewhere

There are a couple of ways to avoid getting the exception, for instance
having export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8.

How about using built-in logging like tf_logging instead of the current
prefix_print()/print()?

[This is an archived TTS discussion thread from discourse.mozilla.org/t/alternative-to-print]

[JRMeyer]

>>> kdavis
[December 23, 2017, 6:28am]

Could you file this as a bug against the current code base in github?

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[JRMeyer]

>>> erogol
[January 5, 2018, 3:40pm]

As a side note, Python3 has no such problem. I think at some point we
need to upgrade things to Python 3 since some of the libraries are also
ditching 2.7 (e.g. Numpy, Scipy, probably TensorFlow soon, PyTorch).

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[JRMeyer]

>>> lissyx
[January 10, 2018, 8:42am]

We do already have builds for 2.7, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6. On TaskCluster, we
just still stick to 2.7 for training the model, but it is an easy switch
to perform.

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