[Python-Dev] Shouldn't I be able to print Unicode objects?
M.-A. Lemburg
mal@lemburg.com
Tue, 05 Jun 2001 22:16:02 +0200
Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
> Michael> Well, what would you have
>
> >>>> print u"\N{DEGREE SIGN}"
>
> Michael> (or equivalently
>
> Michael> str(u"\N{DEGREE SIGN}")
>
> Michael> since we're eventually going to have to stuff an 8-bit string
> Michael> down stdout) do?
>
> How about if print calls the .encode("latin1") method for me it gets an
> ASCII encoding error? If "latin1" isn't a reasonable default choice, it
> could pick an encoding based on the current locale.
Please see Lib/site.py for details on how to enable all these
goodies -- it's all there, just disabled and meant for super-users
only ;-)
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