Re: [Pythoncard-users] Unicode [slightly OT]

[Kenneth P. <ken...@ce...>]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 03:10:23AM +0000, Alex Tweedly wrote:
> If I start up the Python interpreter (i.e. open a DOS shell box, and=20
> type "python") I get my Python interpreter. I then type in the following=
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> two lines, and get an error :
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> >C:\Documents and Settings\Eleane>python
> >Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]=20
> >on win32
> >Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>>> s =3D u'a\u2019s'
> >>>> print s
> >Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> >  File "C:\Python24\lib\encodings\cp850.py", line 18, in encode
> >    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
> >UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u2019'=20
> >in position
> > 1: character maps to <undefined>
> >>>>
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> If instead I start the PythonCard codeEditor, and start a Shell (F5),=20
> and type the same two lines, it works properly.
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> I tried the basic python interpreter adding the imports that are visible=
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> within the codeEditor shell, but still get the same problem.

Unicode in Python drives me batty.  Every time I think I understand
what's going on, something else strange happens, and I begin to doubt my
comprehension.  So, it's not just you. :)

I get this same behavior on Linux (python 2.3.5).  On that platform,
I suspect (but haven't had time to prove) that the problem is
locale-related.  However, even if I figure it out there, I'm not sure
how that solution would translate to other platforms like Windows.

I suggest writing python-devel with "unicode" in the subject somewhere.
Posts with that subject often get quite excellent replies from Martin v.
L=F6wis, who has in fact helped me out several times.

KEN

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Kenneth J. Pronovici <pro...@ie...>
http://www.cedar-solutions.com/