formatted string like---> u'720 S'

Steven D'Aprano steve at REMOVETHIScyber.com.au
Thu Feb 23 10:40:38 EST 2006


On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:00:16 -0700, Bell, Kevin wrote:

> I'm building a dictionary from values a database and upon print the
> dictionary I see key value pairs like this:
> 
> u'Briarcliff' : [u'2500 E'],
> u'Shumway' : [ u'2600 E']
> 
> do I need to slice off the "u", or anything?  I know it has something to
> do with unicode but I don't know how to treat it.

No. The u is part of the display of the string, just like the quote marks. 

Ordinary strings are printed with ' ' delimiters.
Unicode strings are printed with u' ' delimiters.



-- 
Steven.




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