On 4 December 2011 10:22, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
> I found another one:
>
>>>> u"äöü ΦΧΨ".encode("latin1", "backslashreplace")
> '\xe4\xf6\xfc \\u03a6\\u03a7\\u03a8'
That's it! I was hoping for a built-in solution and this is it. FTR,
the 'backslashreplace' argument tells the encoder to replace any
character that it can't encode with a backslash escape sequence.
Which is exactly what I needed, only I hadn't realised it. Thanks!
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