On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:01 PM, ydjango <traderash...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hebrew is within the unicode range 0x590 to 0x5ff. > > I tried > if lang_string[0] >= u'0x590' and lang_string[0] <= u'0x5ff': > > but it does not seem to work.
That isn't the correct syntax for unicode string literals. What you are trying to do should look like this: if lang_string[0] >= u'\u0590' and lang_string[0] <= u'\u05ff': (See http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#strings for all the details on \u, \U, \x and their friends) Testing just the first character of the string may or may not work for general input; that depends entirely on your problem (and your users). If it were me, I would define a utility function like this: def char_is_hebrew(char): return char >= u'\u0590' and char <= u'\u05ff' and then test all of the characters in the string, either with if any(map(char_is_hebrew, lang_string)): <some character is in the range> or if all(map(char_is_hebrew, lang_string)): <every character is in the range> -- Regards, Ian Clelland <clell...@gmail.com> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
