manstey wrote: > Thanks very much. Your def comma_separated_utf8(items): approach raises > an exception in codecs.py, so I tried = u", ".join(word_info + parse + > gloss), which works perfectly. So I want to understand exactly why this > works. word_info and parse and gloss are all tuples. does str convert > the three into an ascii string?
Correct: a tuple is converted into a string with (contents), where contents is achieved through comma-separating repr() of each tuple element. repr(a_unicode_string) creates a \x or \u representation. > but the join method retains their unicode status. Correct. The result is a Unicode string if the joiner is a Unicode string, and all tuple elements are Unicode strings. If one is not, a conversion to Unicode is attempted. > In the text file, the unicode characters appear perfectly, so I'm very > happy. Glad it works. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
