Thanks for the quick response! I see! Oh I didn't realize that it's not the list which raises an error. For a test I tried to insert a string containing a unicode character as follows:
ListObject = [] ListObject.insert(0,u"Möälasdji") which raises: "SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xfc' in file C:\python proj\lists\main.py on line 48, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details" I then tried: ListObject = [] ListObject.insert(0,u"Möälasdji".encode('utf-8')) without success... So would this error have been raised too if this was an input from a GUI-text-object? I'm sorry for this silly question but I'm more or less completely new to python and never encountered similar errors with different languages roman >From: Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Roman Kreuzhuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: tutor@python.org >Subject: Re: [Tutor] Unicode in List Object >Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:38:00 +0100 > >Roman Kreuzhuber wrote: > >>I want to store multiple inputs from text fields in a list-object, which >>works as a very small databank. The problem is that this data will contain >>unicode characters > >I'm not sure why you think this is a problem. A Python list can >hold anything, including unicode objects or encoded strings. eg, > >['White', u'Wei\u00df', 'Wei\xdf'] > >This is a list containing an entirely ASCII string, >a unicode object containing a non-ASCII character, >and the same string encoded as iso-8859-1. > >Can you post some code which shows what you're trying >to do and how it's failing? > >TJG _________________________________________________________________ Sie möchten Teil der Evolution der Kommunikation werden? http://www.communicationevolved.com/de-at/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor