On Friday, November 9, 2012 4:34:19 PM UTC-5, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
> danielk wrote:
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> > The database I'm using stores information as a 3-dimensional array. The
> > delimiters between elements are
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> > chr(252), chr(253) and chr(254). So a record can look like this (example
> > only uses one of the delimiters for
>
> > simplicity):
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> >
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> > name + chr(254) + address + chr(254) + city + chr(254) + st + chr(254) + zip
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> >
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> > The other delimiters can be embedded within each field. For example, if
> > there were multiple addresses for 'name'
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> > then the 'address' field would look like this:
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> >
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> > addr1 + chr(253) + addr2 + chr(253) + addr3 + etc ...
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> >
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> > I use Python to connect to the database using subprocess.Popen to run a
> > server process. Python requests
>
> > 'actions' like 'read' and 'write' to the server process, whereby the server
> > process performs the actions. Some
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> > actions require that the server send back information in the form of
> > records that contain those delimiters.
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> >
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> > I have __str__ and __repr__ methods in the classes but Python is choking on
> > those characters. Surely, I could
>
> > convert those characters on the server before sending them to Python and
> > that is what I'm probably going to do,
>
> > so guess I've answered my own question. On Python 2, it just printed the
> > 'extended' ASCII representation.
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> >
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> > I guess the question I have is: How do you tell Python to use a specific
> > encoding for 'print' statements when I
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> > know there will be characters outside of the ASCII range of 0-127?
>
>
>
> You just need to change the string to one that is not
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> trying to use the ASCII codec when printing.
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>
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> print(chr(253).decode('latin1')) # change latin1 to your
>
> # chosen encoding.
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> ý
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> ~Ramit
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D:\home\python>pytest.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\home\python\pytest.py", line 1, in <module>
print(chr(253).decode('latin1'))
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
Do I need to import something?
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