Re: Use of Unicode in Python 2.5 source code literals

2009-05-03 Thread Uncle Bruce
On May 3, 7:37 am, Matt Nordhoff wrote: > Uncle Bruce wrote: > -- I think I've figured it out! What I was trying to do was to enter the literal strings directly into the IDLE interpreter. The IDLE interpreter will not accept high codepoints directly. However, when I put a defined

Use of Unicode in Python 2.5 source code literals

2009-05-03 Thread Uncle Bruce
I'm working with Python 2.5.4 and the NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit). I'm an experienced programmer, but new to Python. This question arose when I tried to create a literal in my source code for a Unicode codepoint greater than 255. (I also posted this question in the NLTK discussion group). T