Am 08.08.2013 17:44, schrieb Peter Otten: > Kurt Mueller wrote: >> What do I do, when input_strings/output_list has other codings like >> iso-8859-1? > > You have to know the actual encoding. With that information it's easy: >>>> output_list > ['\xc3\xb6', '\xc3\xbc', 'i', 's', 'f'] >>>> encoding = "utf-8" >>>> output_list = [s.decode(encoding) for s in output_list] >>>> print output_list > [u'\xf6', u'\xfc', u'i', u's', u'f']
How do I get to know the actual encoding? I read from stdin. There can be different encondings. Usually utf8 but also iso-8859-1/latin9 are to be expected. But sys.stdin.encoding sais always 'None'. TIA -- Kurt Mueller -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
