Helmut Jarausch wrote: > 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?
Use unicode and follow Martin's recipe: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2011-January/1263783.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
