1 Objective to write little programs to help me learn German. See code
after numbered comments. //Thanks in advance for any direction or
suggestions.
tk
2 Want keyboard answer input, for example:
answer_str = raw_input(' Enter answer > ') Herr Üü
[ I keyboard in the following characters Herr Üü ]
print answer_str
Output on screen is > Herr Üü
3 history 1 and 2 code run interactively under Debian Linux Python
2.4 and interactively under windows98, first edition IDLE, Python 2.3.5
and it works.
4 history 3 and 4 code run from within a .py file produce different
output from example in book.
5 want to operate under Debian Linux but because the program failed
under Linux when I tried to run the code from a file in Linux Python, I
thougt I should fire up the win98 Idle/python program and try it to see
if ran there but it failed, too from within a file.
6 The sample code is from page 108-109 of: "Python for Dummies"
It says in the book: "Python's file objects and StringIO objects
don't support raw Unicode; the usual workaround is to encode Unicode as
UTF-8 before saving it to a file or stringIO object.
The sample code from the book is French as indicate here but trying
German produces the same result.
7 I have searched the net under all the keywords but this is as close as
I get to accomplishing my task. I suspect I may not be understanding:
StringIO objects don't support raw Unicode, but I don't know.
#_*_ coding: utf-8 _*_
# code run under linux debian interactively from a terminal and works
print " u'Libert\u00e9' "
# y = raw_input('Enter >') commented out
y = u'Lbert\u00e9'
y.encode('utf-8')
q = y.encode('utf-8')
q.decode('utf-8')
print q.decode('utf-8')
history 1 works and here is the screen copy of interactive
>>> y = raw_input ('>')
>Libert\xc3\xa9
>>> q = 'Libert\xc3\xa9'
>>> q.decode('utf-8')
u'Libert\xe9'
>>> print q
Liberté
>>>
[ screen output is next line ]
Lberté
history 2
# code run under win98, first edition, within IDLE interactively and
succeeded in produce correct results.
# y = raw_input('Enter >') commented out
y = u'Lbert\u00e9'
y.encode('utf-8')
q = y.encode('utf-8')
q.decode('utf-8')
print q.decode('utf-8')
history 1 works and here is the screen copy of interactive
>>> y = raw_input ('>')
>Libert\xc3\xa9
>>> q = 'Libert\xc3\xa9'
>>> q.decode('utf-8')
u'Libert\xe9'
>>> print q
Liberté
>>>
[ screen output is next line ]
Lberté
# history 3
# this code is run from within idle on win98 and inside a python file.
# The code DOES NOT produce the proper outout.
#_*_ coding: utf-8 _*_
# print "u'Libert\u00e9'" printed to screen
y = raw_input('Enter >')
# y = u'Lbert\u00e9' commented out
y.encode('utf-8')
q = y.encode('utf-8')
q.decode('utf-8')
print q.decode('utf-8')
# output is on the lines below was produced on the screen after run
enter u'Libert\u00e9' on screen to copy into into y string
Enter >u'Libert\u00e9'
u'Libert\u00e9'
The code DOES NOT produce Liberté but instead produce u'Libert\u00e9'
# history 4
# this code is run from within terminal on Debian linux inside a
python file.
# The code does not produce proper outout but produces the same output
as run on
# windows.
#_*_ coding: utf-8 _*_
print "u'Libert\u00e9'" printed to screen
y = raw_input('Enter >')
# y = u'Lbert\u00e9' commented out
y.encode('utf-8')
q = y.encode('utf-8')
q.decode('utf-8')
print q.decode('utf-8')
# output is on the lines below was produced on the screen after run
enter u'Libert\u00e9' on screen to copy into into y string
Enter >u'Libert\u00e9'
u'Libert\u00e9'
The code DID NOT produce Liberté but instead produce u'Libert\u00e9'
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