Skip Montanaro writes:

Me> [what am I missing?]

Michael> The encoding:

>>> print u"\N{DEGREE SIGN}".encode("latin1") °

Hmmm... I don't believe I've ever encountered an object in Python before that you couldn't simply print. Are Unicode objects unique in this respect? Seems like a bug (or at least a feature) to me.

Well, what would you have

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print u"\N{DEGREE SIGN}"

(or equivalently str(u"\N{DEGREE SIGN}") since we're eventually going to have to stuff an 8-bit string down stdout) do? I don't think

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print u"\N{DEGREE SIGN}" u'\xb0'

is really an option. This is old news. It must have been discussed here before 1.6, I'd have thought. Cheers, M. -- 58. Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. -- Alan Perlis, http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html