Running a Python script in cron, how to output Cyrillic?

Question

Python

Greetings.
Input: on the server (Ubuntu), a python script (python 3) is run by cron.
Problem: as soon as Cyrillic comes across (for example: print('Hi')) - the script crashes with an exception like: "UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-7: ordinal not in range(128)".
If you run in the console - everything is ok.
In python 2, this was solved with a small hack:

import sys
reload(sys)                                   
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

However, setdefaultencoding was removed in the third python
:(

Answer 1

try setting:
export PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8

Answer 2

Add the magic comment # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- to the top of your script, like this:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# some code

And the inscriptions in Cyrillic will start to be displayed adequately.