Romano Giannetti wrote: > Hi, > > while writing some LaTeX preprocessing code, I stumbled into this problem: > (I have a -*- coding: utf-8 -*- line, obviously) > > s = ur"añado $\uparrow$" > > Which gave an error because the \u escape is interpreted in raw unicode > strings, too. So I found that the only way to solve this is to write: > > s = unicode(r"añado $\uparrow$", "utf-8") > > or > > s = ur"añado $\u005cuparrow$" > > The second one is too ugly to live, while the first is at least > acceptable; but looking around the Python 3.0 doc, I saw that the first > one will fail, too. > > Am I doing something wrong here or there is another solution for this?
Why don't you rid yourself of the raw-string? Then you need to do s = u"anando $\\uparrow$" which is considerably easier to read than both other variants above. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
