On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@skynet.be>wrote:
> Hi, > > I don't understand Python's behaviour when printing a list. > The following example uses 2 German non-ascii characters. > > #!/usr/bin/python > # _*_ coding: latin1 _*_ > L=["abc","süß","def"] > print L[1],L > > The output of L[1] is correct, while the output of L shows up as > ['abc', 's\xfc\xdf', 'def'] > > How can this be changed? > > Thanks for hint, > Helmut. > > Use Python 3 if you can. Printing a list calls the repr(). In python 2, that showed the bytes for non-ascii characters. Python 3 will print the characters. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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