sonald wrote: > Hi, > I am using python2.4.1 > > I need to pass russian text into python and validate the same. > Can u plz guide me on how to make my existing code support the > russian text. > > Is there any module that can be used for unicode support in python? > > Incase of decimal numbers, how to handle "comma as a decimal point" > within a number > > Currently the existing code is woking fine for English text > Please help. > > Thanks in advance. > > regards > sonal
As both of the other responders have said, the coding comment at the front only affects source text; it has absolutely no effect at run time. In particular, it's not even necessary to use it to handle non-English languages as long as you don't want to write literals in those languages. What seems to be missing is the notion that external files are _always_ byte files, and have to be _explicitly_ decoded into unicode strings, and then encoded back to whatever the external encoding needs to be, each and every time you read or write a file, or copy string data from byte strings to unicode strings and back. There is no good way of handling this implicitly: you can't simply say "utf-8" or "iso-8859-whatever" in one place and expect it to work. You've got to specify the encoding on each and every open, or else use the encode and decode string methods. This is a great motivation for eliminating duplication and centralizing your code! For your other question: the general words are localization and locale. Look up locale in the index. It's a strange subject which I don't know much about, but that should get you started. John Roth -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
