Code review comment for lp:~rodsmith/hwcert-tools/get-ytd

There are (and were) no double newlines within either of the script's functions.

As to the .encode('utf-8'), I've found a way to do it without that. FWIW, the issue is that Python doesn't know the proper encoding when redirecting, so it has to be told that explicitly, as described here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4545661/unicodedecodeerror-when-redirecting-to-file