Ed Singleton wrote: > On 8/29/06, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The main problem I am having is in getting python not to give an >>> error when it encounters a sterling currency sign (£, pound sign here >>> in UK), which I suspect might be some wider problem on the mac as when >>> I type that character in the terminal it shows a # (but in Python it >>> shows a £). >>> >> Where is the pound sign coming from? What encoding is it in? What do you >> mean, in Python it shows £? You said Python gives an error...Fixing your >> first problem may not help this one without a bit more digging... (BTW >> in the US a # is sometimes called a 'pound sign', maybe the computer is >> trying to translate for you ;) - though it is for pound weight, not >> pound sterling.) >> > > The pound sign is in the source code in a string, or in a text file I > was reading in. Both should be in utf-8 as I save all files to that > by default. I think it was (hopefully) just that python was choking > on printing the character (I was printing everything for debugging > purposes). > You also need to tell Python that the file is in UTF-8 by putting an encoding declaration at the top of the file.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- You probably want to make the strings Unicode strings as well, e.g. u'xxx'. > If I type "£" into a text document and copy and paste it to the python > console, it comes out as " £" (with a space). If I copy and paste it > back, the space is gone. > Sounds like maybe you are pasting Unicode (two bytes) and the console interprets it as two characters. > If I type "test £" (without quotes) into a text document and copy and > paste it to the console it comes out as "#test" and goes to a new > line, as if I had pressed enter. > That on is very strange. By the way you can explicitly control the conversion on output by using e.g. print someString.encode('utf-8') Finally, please keep the discussion on list. Kent > I'll keep digging and trying things out. > > Thanks > > Ed > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor