Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 11:51:34 pm you wrote:
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(Context: Python 3.x, where strings are unicode.)
repr() returns the string
representation, not the byte representation. Try this:
That's what I was missing. Somehow I assumed it was converting to byte
strings.
I had assumed that it reverted to /uxxxx or /Uxxxxxxxx whenever a
character was outside the ASCII range. That would be a direct analog to
what seems to happen on byte strings. Does it only escape newlines and
single quotes ?
a = chr(300)
b = repr(a)
My prediction is that it will succeed, and not fail. Then try this:
print(a)
My prediction is that it will fail with UnicodeEncodeError. It is is
your terminal that can't display arbitrary Unicode characters, because
your terminal have a weird encoding set. Fix the terminal, and you
won't have the problem:
Any suggestions how to fix the Windows console to interpret utf8?
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FWIW, my sys.stdout.encoding is cp437.
Well, there's your problem.
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