Re: Unicode support in Python 2.7.8 - 16 bit

2017-03-07 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 07 Mar 2017 14:05:15 -0800, John Nagle wrote: > How do I test if a Python 2.7.8 build was built for 32-bit Unicode? sys.maxunicode will be 1114111 if it is a "wide" (32-bit) build and 65535 if it is a "narrow" (16-bit) build. You can double-check with: unichr(0x10) # will raise V

Re: Unicode support in Python 2.7.8 - 16 bit

2017-03-07 Thread Terry Reedy
On 3/7/2017 5:05 PM, John Nagle wrote: How do I test if a Python 2.7.8 build was built for 32-bit Unicode? (I'm dealing with shared hosting, and I'm stuck with their provided versions.) If I give this to Python 2.7.x: sy = u'\U0001f60f' len(sy) is 1 on a Ubuntu 14.04LTS machine, but 2

Re: Unicode support in Python 2.7.8 - 16 bit

2017-03-07 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:05 AM, John Nagle wrote: >How do I test if a Python 2.7.8 build was built for 32-bit > Unicode? (I'm dealing with shared hosting, and I'm stuck > with their provided versions.) > > If I give this to Python 2.7.x: > > sy = u'\U0001f60f' > > len(sy) is 1 on a Ubuntu

Unicode support in Python 2.7.8 - 16 bit

2017-03-07 Thread John Nagle
How do I test if a Python 2.7.8 build was built for 32-bit Unicode? (I'm dealing with shared hosting, and I'm stuck with their provided versions.) If I give this to Python 2.7.x: sy = u'\U0001f60f' len(sy) is 1 on a Ubuntu 14.04LTS machine, but 2 on the Red Hat shared hosting machine.

Re: Unicode support in python

2006-10-25 Thread sonald
: > sonald wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using python2.4.1 > > > > I need to pass russian text into python and validate the same. > > Can u plz guide me on how to make my existing code support the > > russian text. > > > > Is there any module that can be us

Re: Unicode support in python

2006-10-25 Thread sonald
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > what does the word "validate" mean here? > Let me explain our module. We receive text files (with comma separated values, as per some predefined format) from a third party. for example account file comes as "abc.acc" {.acc is the extension for account file as per our code}

Re: Unicode support in python

2006-10-20 Thread John Roth
sonald wrote: > Hi, > I am using python2.4.1 > > I need to pass russian text into python and validate the same. > Can u plz guide me on how to make my existing code support the > russian text. > > Is there any module that can be used for unicode support in python? >

Re: Unicode support in python

2006-10-20 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"sonald" wrote: > I have added the following line in the script > > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- that's good. > I have also modified the site.py that's bad, because this means that your code won't work on standard Python installations. > Now when I try to validate the data in the text file > say ab

Re: Unicode support in python

2006-10-20 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
sonald schrieb: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: >>>http://www.google.com/search?q=python+unicode >> (and before anyone starts screaming about how they hate RTFM replies, look >> at the search result) >> >> > Thanks!! but i have already tried this... Tried - might be. But you certainly didn't understan

Re: Unicode support in python

2006-10-20 Thread sonald
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > >http://www.google.com/search?q=python+unicode > > (and before anyone starts screaming about how they hate RTFM replies, look > at the search result) > > Thanks!! but i have already tried this... and let me tell you what i am trying now... I have added the following li

Re: Unicode support in python

2006-10-20 Thread Fredrik Lundh
>http://www.google.com/search?q=python+unicode (and before anyone starts screaming about how they hate RTFM replies, look at the search result) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unicode support in python

2006-10-20 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"sonald" wrote: > I need to pass russian text into python and validate the same. > Can u plz guide me on how to make my existing code support the > russian text. > > Is there any module that can be used for unicode support in python? Python has built-in Unicode support

Unicode support in python

2006-10-20 Thread sonald
Hi, I am using python2.4.1 I need to pass russian text into python and validate the same. Can u plz guide me on how to make my existing code support the russian text. Is there any module that can be used for unicode support in python? Incase of decimal numbers, how to handle "comma