On 08/26/2011 11:49 AM, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
Yep, it is. Thanks those charts are exactly what I wanted! Now I have another
question. What is the difference between what print shows and what the
interpreter shows?
print s.decode('latin-1')
MÉXICO
The decoded characters are a Unicode string.
Prasad, Ramit wrote:
Think about it this way... if I gave you a block of data as hex
bytes:
240F91BC03...FF90120078CD45
and then asked you whether that was a bitmap image or a sound file
or something else, how could you tell? It's just *bytes*, it could
be anything.
Yes, but if you give me da
>In this case, the encoding is almost certainly "latin-1". I know that
>from playing around at the interactive interpreter, like this:
>
> >>> s = 'M\xc9XICO'
> >>> print s.decode('latin-1')
> MÉXICO
>
>If you want to see charts of various encodings, wikipedia has a bunch.
> For instance, the Lati
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Prasad, Ramit
wrote:
> Nice catch! Yeah, I am stuck on the encoding mechanism as well. I know how to
> encode/decode...but not what encoding to use. Is there a reference that I can
> look up to find what encoding that would correspond to? I know what the
> chara
>Think about it this way... if I gave you a block of data as hex bytes:
>
>240F91BC03...FF90120078CD45
>
>and then asked you whether that was a bitmap image or a sound file or
>something else, how could you tell? It's just *bytes*, it could be anything.
Yes, but if you give me data and then tell
Prasad, Ramit wrote:
I don't know what they are from but they are both the same value,
one in hex and one in octal.
0xC9 == 0311
As for the encoding mechanisms I'm afraid I can't help there!
Nice catch! Yeah, I am stuck on the encoding mechanism as well. I
know how to encode/decode...but not
>I don't know what they are from but they are both the same value, one in
>hex and one in octal.
>
>0xC9 == 0311
>
>As for the encoding mechanisms I'm afraid I can't help there!
Nice catch! Yeah, I am stuck on the encoding mechanism as well. I know how to
encode/decode...but not what encoding to
On 25/08/11 15:36, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
I have a string question for Python2. Basically I have two strings with
> non-ASCII characters and I would like to have a better understanding
> of what the escapes are from
' M\xc9XICO' and ' M\311XICO'
I don't know what they are from but they are bot
I have a string question for Python2. Basically I have two strings with
non-ASCII characters and I would like to have a better understanding of what
the escapes are from and how to possibly remove/convert/encode the string to
something else. If the description of my intended action is vague it i
Rick Pasotto wrote:
I can print the string fine. It's f.write(string_with_unicode) that fails with:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 31-32:
ordinal not in range(128)
Shouldn't I be able to f.write() *any* 8bit byte(s)?
repr() gives: u"Realtors\\xc2\\xae"
On 06/18/10 14:21, Rick Pasotto wrote:
>> Remember, even if your terminal display is restricted to ASCII, you can
>> still use Beautiful Soup to parse, process, and write documents in UTF-8
>> and other encodings. You just can't print certain strings with print.
>
> I can print the string fine. It
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:24:25PM +1000, Lie Ryan wrote:
> On 06/18/10 06:41, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> > I'm using BeautifulSoup to process a webpage. One of the fields has a
> > unicode character in it. (It's the 'registered trademark' symbol.) When
> > I try to write this string to another file I g
On 06/18/10 06:41, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> I'm using BeautifulSoup to process a webpage. One of the fields has a
> unicode character in it. (It's the 'registered trademark' symbol.) When
> I try to write this string to another file I get this error:
>
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode
I'm using BeautifulSoup to process a webpage. One of the fields has a
unicode character in it. (It's the 'registered trademark' symbol.) When
I try to write this string to another file I get this error:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 31-32:
ordinal not in ra
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To: "Strax-Haber, Matthew (LARC-D320)"
Cc: Python Tutor
Subject: Re: [Tutor] String Encoding problem
Can you give us a simple description of what you are trying to do? And
if you can post in plain text instead of HTML that would be helpful.
Maybe this will give you some ideas - you c
Can you give us a simple description of what you are trying to do? And
if you can post in plain text instead of HTML that would be helpful.
Maybe this will give you some ideas - you can trap the control-D and
do your cleanup:
http://openbookproject.net/pybiblio/tips/wilson/simpleExceptions.php
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From: Martin Walsh
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:05:01 -0500
To: Python Tutor
Cc: "Strax-Haber, Matthew (
Forwarding to the list. Matt, perhaps you can repost in plain text, my
mail client seems to have mangled your source ...
Strax-Haber, Matthew (LARC-D320) wrote:
>> *From: *Martin Walsh
>>
>> The environment available to __del__ methods during program termination
>> is wonky, and apparently not ve
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Matt wrote:
> Running this interactively, if you finish off with 'del db', it exits fine
> and creates a skeleton xml file called 'db.xml' with text ''.
> However, if you instead CTRL-D, it throws at exception while quitting and
> then leaves an empty 'db.xml' whi
Matt wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I'm hoping someone here can help me solve an odd problem (bug?). I'm
> having trouble with string encoding, object deletion, and the xml.etree
> library. If this isn't the right list to be posting this question,
> please let me know. I'm new to Python and don't know
> From: spir
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:22:59 -0500
> To: Python Tutor
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] String Encoding problem
>
> Le Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:46:47 -0400,
> Matt s'exprima ainsi:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I
Le Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:46:47 -0400,
Matt s'exprima ainsi:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I'm hoping someone here can help me solve an odd problem (bug?). I'm having
> trouble with string encoding, object deletion, and the xml.etree library. If
> this isn't the right list to be posting this question, please
Hey everyone,
I'm hoping someone here can help me solve an odd problem (bug?). I'm having
trouble with string encoding, object deletion, and the xml.etree library. If
this isn't the right list to be posting this question, please let me know.
I'm new to Python and don't know of any other "help me"
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