"George Trojan" <george.tro...@noaa.gov> wrote in message news:hbidd7$i9...@news.nems.noaa.gov...
A trivial one, this is the first time I have to deal with Unicode. I am trying to parse a string s='''48° 13' 16.80" N'''. I know the charset is "iso-8859-1". To get the degrees I did>>> encoding='iso-8859-1' >>> q=s.decode(encoding) >>> q.split() [u'48\xc2\xb0', u"13'", u'16.80"', u'N'] >>> r=q.split()[0] >>> int(r[:r.find(unichr(ord('\xc2')))]) 48Is there a better way of getting the degrees?
It seems your string is UTF-8. \xc2\xb0 is UTF-8 for DEGREE SIGN: -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
