German umlaut in a string.

[Leszek Krupiński]

Ship log, stardate: [-29]0729.3, Lukas Kasprowicz reports:
>  Hi Folks,
>  
>  I have a string filled with much text converted from a tuple.
>  
>  when I try to do someting like this:
>  
>          exclusion = re.sub("\\xf6", "%F6", exclusion) # ö
>          exclusion = re.sub("\\xfc", "%FC", exclusion) # ü
>          exclusion = re.sub("\\xe4", "%E4", exclusion) # ä 
>          exclusion = re.sub("\\xdf", "%DF", exclusion) # ß 
>  
>  it takes no effect at the string.
>  
>  things like:
>  
>          exclusion = re.sub(',', '', exclusion)
>          exclusion = re.sub('\(', '', exclusion)
>          exclusion = re.sub('\)', '', exclusion)
>          exclusion = re.sub("'", "", exclusion)
>          exclusion = re.sub(" ", "+%2D", exclusion)
>  work fine.
>  
>  when i write the sting in a python console into a variable like:
>  
>         >>> test = "some\\xf6thing"
>         >>> print re.sub("\\xf6", "%F6", test)
>              some%F6thing
>  
>  I get the correct output.

It works for you?

>>> test = "some\\xf6thing"
>>> print re.sub("\\xf6", "%F6", test)
some\xf6thing

(Python 2.3)

>>> exclusion = "some\xf6thing"
>>> exclusion = re.sub("\\xf6", "%F6", exclusion)
>>> print exclusion
some%F6thing

I believe that problem is in slashes.

Leon
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