Re: string to unicode

2011-08-16 Thread Tim Roberts
Artie Ziff wrote: > >if I am using the standard csv library to read contents of a csv file >which contains Unicode strings (short example: >'\xe8\x9f\x92\xe8\x9b\x87'), You need to be rather precise when talking about this. That's not a "Unicode string" in Python terms. It's an 8-bit string.

Re: string to unicode

2011-08-15 Thread Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Artie Ziff wrote: >> if I am using the standard csv library to read contents of a csv file >> which contains Unicode strings (short example: >> '\xe8\x9f\x92\xe8\x9b\x87'), how do I use a python Unicode method such as >> decode or encode to

Re: string to unicode

2011-08-15 Thread Terry Reedy
On 8/15/2011 11:29 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 08:20 -0700, Artie Ziff wrote: if I am using the standard csv library to read contents of a csv file which contains Unicode strings (short example: '\xe8\x9f\x92\xe8\x9b\x87'), how do I use a python Unicode method such as de

Re: string to unicode

2011-08-15 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 08:20 -0700, Artie Ziff wrote: > if I am using the standard csv library to read contents of a csv file > which contains Unicode strings (short example: > '\xe8\x9f\x92\xe8\x9b\x87'), how do I use a python Unicode method such > as decode or encode to transform this string ty

Re: string to unicode

2011-08-15 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Artie Ziff wrote: > if I am using the standard csv library to read contents of a csv file which > contains Unicode strings (short example: '\xe8\x9f\x92\xe8\x9b\x87'), how do > I use a python Unicode method such as decode or encode to transform this > string type i

Re: String to unicode - duplicating by function the effect of u prefix

2009-06-19 Thread Vincent
On Jun 18, 3:23 pm, CiTro wrote: > Thank you, Peter. That solved my problem. the another way is, codecs.raw_unicode_escape_decode(stringOne) == stringTwo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: String to unicode - duplicating by function the effect of u prefix

2009-06-19 Thread CiTro
Thank you, Peter. That solved my problem. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: String to unicode - duplicating by function the effect of u prefix

2009-06-18 Thread Peter Otten
CiTro wrote: > I'm looking for a way to convert a string to it's unicode "brother". > > This means: > > stringOne = "\u0026" > stringTwo = u"\u0026" > > print unicode(stringOne) == stringTwo > > The result is false. What function should I use, to duplicate the > effect of the "u" prefix ? "\u