Let me write unicode to stdout on Python 2

src/allmydata/scripts/tahoe_status.py

@@ -21,6 +21,26 @@ from allmydata.scripts.common_http import BadResponse
 from allmydata.util.abbreviate import abbreviate_space, abbreviate_time
 from allmydata.util.encodingutil import argv_to_abspath
 
+if PY2:
+    _print = print
+    def print(*args, **kwargs):
+        """
+        Builtin ``print``-alike that will even write unicode not encodeable using
+        the specified output file's encoding.
+        """
+        out = kwargs.pop("file", None)
+        if out is None:
+            from sys import stdout as out
+        encoding = out.encoding or "ascii"
+        def ensafe(o):
+            if isinstance(o, unicode):
+                return o.encode(encoding, errors="replace").decode(encoding)
+            return o
+        return _print(
+            *(ensafe(a) for a in args),
+            file=out,
+            **kwargs
+        )
 
 def _get_request_parameters_for_fragment(options, fragment, method, post_args):
     """