Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:33 AM, goldtech <goldt...@worldpost.com> wrote: >> >> I'm using using Idle on winXP, activestate 2.7. Is there a way to >> suppress this and just show 174 in the shell ? >> A script reading data and assigns 174 to n via some regex. Links on >> this appreciated - I've tried to understand unicode before, will keep >> trying...thanks. > > There's two things there. Firstly, your regex is returning a list, not > a string; and secondly, you are seeing repr(n) instead of just its > content. Try: >>>> print(n[0]) > > This should print just the value. > > (Pro tip: rantingrick is a troll. You can safely ignore him.)
If he's a troll, he's one of the better trolls here IMHO because he gave the best advise in this thread. You just gave the OP a fish, he provided a valuable advise on fishing itself. Uli -- Domino Laser GmbH Geschäftsführer: Thorsten Föcking, Amtsgericht Hamburg HR B62 932 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
