On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:13:00 +0100, Hans Martin wrote: > this is probably a trivial problem, but a google search for "python" > and "unicode" and" format string" gives too many hits: If I specify > e.g. "%20s" in a format string and the string value contains UTF-8 > stuff (differing number of bytes per character), the length of the > resulting string (in characters) varies. How can I fix this?
Use unicode strings instead. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list