Thanks for all suggestions. It took me a while to find out how to
configure my keyboard to be able to type the degree sign. I prefer to
stick with pure ASCII if possible.
Where are the literals (i.e. u'\N{DEGREE SIGN}') defined? I found
http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.1.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt
Is that the place to look?
George
Scott David Daniels wrote:
Mark Tolonen wrote:
Is there a better way of getting the degrees?
It seems your string is UTF-8. \xc2\xb0 is UTF-8 for DEGREE SIGN. If
you type non-ASCII characters in source code, make sure to declare the
encoding the file is *actually* saved in:
# coding: utf-8
s = '''48° 13' 16.80" N'''
q = s.decode('utf-8')
# next line equivalent to previous two
q = u'''48° 13' 16.80" N'''
# couple ways to find the degrees
print int(q[:q.find(u'°')])
import re
print re.search(ur'(\d+)°',q).group(1)
Mark is right about the source, but you needn't write unicode source
to process unicode data. Since nobody else mentioned my favorite way
of writing unicode in ASCII, try:
IDLE 2.6.3
>>> s = '''48\xc2\xb0 13' 16.80" N'''
>>> q = s.decode('utf-8')
>>> degrees, rest = q.split(u'\N{DEGREE SIGN}')
>>> print degrees
48
>>> print rest
13' 16.80" N
And if you are unsure of the name to use:
>>> import unicodedata
>>> unicodedata.name(u'\xb0')
'DEGREE SIGN'
--Scott David Daniels
scott.dani...@acm.org
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