Dietmar Schwertberger <maill...@schwertberger.de> wrote: > On 07.02.2016 12:19, c...@isbd.net wrote: > > However my database has quite a lot of Unicode data as there are > > French (and other) names with accents etc. What's the right way to > > handle this reasonably neatly? At the moment it traps an error at > > line 37:- > > self.SetCellValue(row_num, i, str(cells[i])) > The unicode versions of wxPython should have no problems with handling > unicode strings. > The problem that you see here is that str(...) tries to convert your > unicode data into a non-unicode string, which of course fails. > Do something like: > > value = cells[i] > if not isinstance(value, basestring): > value = str(value) > self.SetCellValue(row_num, i, value) > Thanks, worked perfectly! I had been trying to produce something similar in tkinter but grids are a bit clumsy in tkinter. This wx implementation will do me nicely.
> Once you switch to Python 3 and Phoenix you have to modify this > slightly, e.g. by adding this to the top of your code: > > try: > basestring > except: > basestring = (bytes,str) > Everything else is 3 compatible so moving should be fairly painless if/when phoenix becomes available. -- Chris Green ยท -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
