On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have some code that I inherited:
>
> ' '.join([self.get_abbrev()] +
> [str(f['value')
> for f in self.filters
> if f.has_key('value')]).strip()
>
> This broke today when it encountered some non-ascii data.
>
One option would be to do the processing in unicode, and convert to utf-8
only when needed:
u' '.join([self.get_abbrev()] +
[unicode(f['value')
for f in self.filters
if f.has_key('value')]).strip()
If needed, add a .encode('utf-8') to the end.
>
> I changed the str(f['value']) line to f['value'].encode('utf-8'),
> which works fine, except when f['value'] is not a string (it could be
> anything).
>
> Without rewriting this without the list comprehension, how can I write
> this to deal with both strings and non-strings?
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