How to overcome automatic cyrillic-to-/hex convert

[Florian Diesch]

<degoor_python at dir.bg> <degoor_python at dir.bg> wrote:
> But when I enter some Bulgarian (actually cyrillic) text as a string,
> it
> seems that Python automatically converts it to '\x00..\x00 ' and once
> converted that way I can't get it back into its original look. The only
> way to get it right is using print :
>
>>>> a = 'ÌÀÌÀ' # 'Mam' in Bulgarian
>>>> print a
> 'ÌÀÌÀ'
>
> but
>
>>>> a
> '\xcc\xe0\xec\xe0'


Did you try the locale module?


   Florian
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