mailing list wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got some source code which will be handling non-ASCII chars like > umlauts and what not, and I've got a testing portion stored in the > code. > > I get this deprecation warning when I run my code - > __main__:1: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\xfc' in file > C:\Python24\testit.py on line 733, but no encoding declared; see > http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details > > I'm reading this - http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html > > Now, the non-ASCII character is in the test data, so it's not actually > part of my code. > Will Python be able to handle \xfc and company in data without my > telling it to use a different form of encoding?
You should tell Python what the encoding is. The non-ASCII character is part of the source file. Just include the line # -*- coding: cp1252 -*- at the start of the code. > When I run the code, and get my returned data, it looks like this in > Pythonwin - > > >>>>print j["landunits"].keys() > > ['"J\xe4ger"', '"Deutschmeister"', '"Army of Bohemia"', > '"Gardegrenadiere"', '"K.u.K Armee"', '"Erzherzog"', '"Army of > Italy"', '"Army of Silesia"', '"Army of Hungary"'] > > So J\xe4ger is actually Jäger. When I run it slightly differently - > >>>>for item in j["landunits"].keys(): > > ... print item > ... > "Jäger" > "Deutschmeister" > "Army of Bohemia" > "Gardegrenadiere" > "K.u.K Armee" > "Erzherzog" > "Army of Italy" > "Army of Silesia" > "Army of Hungary" > > It prints the umlauted 'a' fine and dandy. You are seeing the difference between printing a string and printing it's repr(). When you print a list (which is what j["landunits"].keys() is), Python prints the repr() of each element of the list. repr() of a string shows non-ascii characters as \x escapes; that's why you get J\xe4ger. When you print the string directly, the non-ascii chars are sent to the terminal directly. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
