Am 05.09.2014 um 10:42 schrieb c...@isbd.net: > Joshua Landau <jos...@landau.ws> wrote: >> On 3 September 2014 15:48, <c...@isbd.net> wrote: >>> Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >>>>>>> [ord(c) for c in "This is a string"] >>>> [84, 104, 105, 115, 32, 105, 115, 32, 97, 32, 115, 116, 114, 105, 110, 103] >>>> >>>> There are other ways, but you have to describe the use case and your Python >>>> version for us to recommend the most appropriate. >>>> >>> That looks OK to me. It's just for outputting a string to the block >>> write command in python-smbus which expects an integer array. >> >> Just be careful about Unicode characters. > > I have to avoid them completely because I'm sending the string to a > character LCD with a limited 8-bit only character set.
Could someone please explain the following behavior to me: Python 2.7.7, MacOS 10.9 Mavericks >>> import sys >>> sys.getdefaultencoding() 'ascii' >>> [ord(c) for c in 'AÄ'] [65, 195, 132] >>> [ord(c) for c in u'AÄ'] [65, 196] My obviously wrong understanding: ‚AÄ‘ in ‚ascii‘ are two characters one with ord A=65 and one with ord Ä=196 ISO8859-1 <depends on code table> —-> why [65, 195, 132] u’AÄ’ is an Unicode string —-> why [65, 196] It is just the other way round as I would expect. Thank you -- Kurt Mueller, kurt.alfred.muel...@gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list